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They will call you Sun, Wind, Drought, or Rain, depending on the season of life they met you in.Where I am from, we learn early that weather is less a fact than a feeling remembered. At home, the sky is never neutral. It leans heavy with opinion, blue like forgiveness one hour, then torn open… Read more
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The Scripture declares, “For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men” (Proverbs 23:27–28). The “strange woman” of Verse 27 refers to an Israelite who has gone over to a foreign religion. In effect,… Read more
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She dreams of movement, of turning without measure, of a body answering the quiet pull of joy. She imagines her feet learning the language of air. She wants the moment when effort becomes grace. She wants to spin until thought loosens its grip. She wants freedom not as an idea, but as a living breath. In her dreaming,… Read more
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A true church should not normalize what Scripture plainly calls worldliness; when a church gives a platform to people whose public message glorifies profanity, lust, greed, drunkenness, or sin, it risks confusing light with darkness.James says the same spring should not send out both sweet water and bitter water, and Revelation’s warning to Laodicea fits… Read more
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Christian teaching holds that while true believers cannot be possessed by demons because the Holy Spirit dwells within them, they can still experience external oppression, mental and emotional torment that may, at times, resemble conditions like schizophrenia. This is especially concerning when individuals engage in substance use, such as psilocybin mushrooms or mushroom tea.Psychedelics are… Read more
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You do not have to understand someone to love them, but too many people decide they need an explanation before they offer kindness. When judgment rises up in you, when it forms that quiet sentence in your head about who they are and why they are like this, stop and pray for them. Then pray… Read more
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We grow up thinking someone will come… someone will fix it… someone will save us… but somewhere along the way… it becomes this: your side… my side… their side… his side… her side… lines appear… not on maps… but in living rooms… across dinner tables… inside conversations that used to feel safe… one person chooses… Read more
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That butterfly She flew into my garden one day and lit upon a magnolia just to my left. With her small glorious voice she said to me: ” I’ve conquered my demons and now wear my scars as wings” She is beautiful, luminous, and precious, as she drifts through the air, weightless; carried by something… Read more
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Daniel 6:16–22 is one of those passages that takes us straight into the tension between human power and divine authority. The king gives the command, and Daniel is brought and cast into the den of lions, but even in that moment the king speaks a word of hope: “Thy God whom thou servest continually, he… Read more
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There is a quiet violence in pruning. Branches are cut back, life is trimmed away, and what once flourished is left bare. And yet, beneath the surface, something wiser is at work. What looks like loss is often love in disguise, making room for deeper, stronger growth. So it is with us. There are seasons… Read more
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DEPRESSION you think you can drain me and call it truth you tell me I am nothing over and over like repetition makes it real IT DOES NOT You are a distortion not a verdict And I am still here Breathing Existing Living in a world you said I would not survive That alone proves you wrong BIPOLAR DISORDER you… Read more
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We sit with ourselves more often than we admit, in the quiet spaces between moments, where memory drifts in unannounced, soft as light, heavy as stone. We think of years gone by, of faces that once filled our days, of laughter that echoed longer than we realized, and of losses that carved their names into… Read more
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“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.” (Matthew 7:13-14, KJV) Jesus does… Read more
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When I meet Jesus,I don’t think He’ll need to ask me how I lived.I think He’ll already know.He’ll open my heart like a book, run His fingers across the pages, and there you’ll be your names written in every margin,bleeding through paper, through bone, through everything I ever was.He’ll look closer… and He’ll see what… Read more
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How many times do I have to burn before I’m allowed to say it out loud without someone trying to soften it, sanitize it, dress it up like something harmless The most wretched thing I know is not pain, not suffering, not even the kind of loss that hollows you out and leaves you staring… Read more
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You hear the music, don’t you? Where’s the True Theology The worship songs climbing up the charts, lyrics printed on bulletins, songs that make you feel something….. But let me ask you straight: Do the lyrics line up with the Word of God, or are we singing pretty lies?Are they Theologically correct?!They sing, “He was… Read more
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Just like the child who tied a pork chop around his neck just to get the dog to play with him. There’s an innocence in that, a simple desire for connection, harmless and understandable. But adulthood doesn’t give us the same grace. When we keep doing the equivalent changing ourselves, wearing what others like, shaping… Read more
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people holding the pulpits aren’t always shepherds, sometimes they’re actors wearing robes. They say, “Bear one another’s burdens,” but here’s what they mean: “Not yours;unless you fit the brand.” Your spiritual failure or messes in life are acceptable only if your story sounds right, your language matches theirs, your pain can be used as content.… Read more
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Sometimes a person is simply beautiful in a way words can’t fully hold.Sure, outwardly she is perfect, yet because of who she is, that makes the difference It’s in the way she smiles, the kind of smile that quietly makes you smile too, without effort, without thinking; raw natural intelligence and creativity in action It’s… Read more
The Quill of Samantha Grace Newcastle 