The Quill of Samantha Grace Newcastle

Canada

  • 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: “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

  • not in my time,…. only His!

    “A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in its time.” (Isaiah 60:22, Webster) How small the beginnings of God’s work often seem….A little one, a remnant, a seed hidden in the soil — all appear insignificant in human eyes. Yet from such… Read more

  • The healer dies!

    Tonight’s writing is part reflection, part elegy, and it says something many healers, empaths, and compassionate people experience but rarely express out loud: the exhaustion that comes from always being the giver, never the receiver. The healer was never meant to mend their own wounds, not the ones hidden in the heart, nor the quiet… Read more

  • Eye of the needle…simply written

    Friend, there’s a picture Jesus painted that never fails to stop me in my tracks. He said it’s easier for a camel to walk through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. Now that’s not “hard”; that’s impossible. You can’t squeeze a camel through a sewing… Read more

  • it’s important, not blah blah blah!

    “And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. And I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day… Read more