The Quill of Samantha Grace Newcastle

Writings that cover real people, real situations, real emotions and raw truth. Not limited to one subject or area.

  • wolves are wolves not truth

    A true church should not normalize what Scripture plainly calls worldliness; when a church gives a platform to people whose public message glorifies… More.

  • How, Who,

    I have carried myself farther than I ever should have had to go, and somehow I am still here, still breathing, still held… More.

  • Christianity, Schizophrenia, Mushrooms

    Christian teaching holds that while true believers cannot be possessed by demons because the Holy Spirit dwells within them, they can still experience… More.

  • Just love them honestly

    You do not have to understand someone to love them, but too many people decide they need an explanation before they offer kindness.… More.

  • lines of hurt

    We grow up thinking someone will come… someone will fix it… someone will save us… but somewhere along the way… it becomes this:… More.

  • Be Yourself….. Be real…..

    The trash man can have the the voices that tell you to toughen up, like feeling deeply is some kind of flaw, like… More.

  • Butterfly Stars

    That butterfly She flew into my garden one day and lit upon a magnolia just to my left. With her small glorious voice… More.

  • losses change the play book

    It was not just the betrayal. It was the audacity, the way someone who laughed with you, prayed with you, and knew your… More.

  • Worshiping from the lions den

    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… More.

  • Grief cptsd

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  • Only

    Every now and again, I view pictures of grave markers, head stones, etc. Most likely due to my experiences with my parents in… More.

  • Pruning the vineyard

    There is a quiet violence in pruning. Branches are cut back, life is trimmed away, and what once flourished is left bare. And… More.

  • Responding to your “it”

    DEPRESSION you think you can drain me and call it truth you tell me I am nothing over and over like repetition makes it… More.

  • for a moment

    We sit with ourselves more often than we admit, in the quiet spaces between moments, where memory drifts in unannounced, soft as light,… More.

  • broad, narrow

    “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many… More.

  • Poetic Ending 444

    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… More.

  • raw honesty

    How many times do I have to burn before I’m allowed to say it out loud without someone trying to soften it, sanitize… More.

  • Who writes your song list

    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… More.

  • pork chop friends

    Just like the child who tied a pork chop around his neck just to get the dog to play with him. There’s an… More.

  • Drop the mic, close the doors

    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:… More.

  • if I could speak her name

    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,… More.

  • Memento Vivre

    She said it softly, like a secret already too late to keep: Memento Mori, and the room seemed to dim around us, as… More.

  • Jesus, Alcohol and Them

    This hyper-connected world we live in, where constant interaction never quite hits genuine understanding or real emotional closeness, leaves us isolated, craving true… More.

  • Leaders will stand before God for using anything from this man

    There is no creation of his that should be used because lies plus truth equal errors, equal lost souls, equal fake changes and… More.

  • Hear and listen

    To anyone willing to listen I am not writing to you as someone who has everything figured out. I am not writing as… More.