Category Archives: blessings
My Favorite Name
This is a post that I first wrote on my own blog, Linda Kruschke’s Blog, in December of 2009. I somehow stumbled upon it the other day and thought it would be a good one to share here at Broken Believers. It is a good reminder that God is with us, and God wants us [...]
Hold Onto What You Know
A dear and wise friend of mine once told me that I should never go by what I feel, but by what I know. Feelings can be fickle and reactionary, and oftentimes they do not reveal the truth about the situation they are a reaction to. There are times when my feelings have been all of those things. [...]
Making It All Real
“[The LORD Is My Fortress] I live under the protection of God Most High and stay in the shadow of God All-Powerful.” Psalm 91:1 CEV We must grasp this down deep. He shelters us in a place that no one can reach. He is a rock of a fortress, and evil will never penetrate [...]
Superglue Your Crown On
“Because you have obeyed my command to persevere, I will protect you from the great time of testing that will come upon the whole world to test those who belong to this world. 11 I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take away your crown.“ Rev. 3:1o-11, [...]
Five Rings to Make Us
“The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.” – Zephaniah 3:17 Five things are listed from the very inside, outward in concentric circles, each is a profound issue. We [...]
Our Very Real Treasure
As Christians often our theology tells us that mental illness, depression, and bipolar disorder have no place in the believer’s life. So we hide, sneaking into our sessions with our therapists, and change the subject to minimize our exposure to direct questions. We have hidden our issues really well. But I would submit [...]
An Excess of Good News
I have been rightly branded as a pessimist. My struggles are such that I must continue to press into joy–shaking off the grave clothes, and step into the sunshine. I need to spontaneously sing once in a while. There is an abundance in the kingdom of our Father. The currency of that place is joy [...]
Desiderata
Desiderata (Latin: “desired things”, plural of desideratum) is a 1927 prose poem by American writer Max Ehrmann (1872-1945). It exhorts the reader to “be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be”, and to “keep peace with your soul”. “With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,” wrote Ehrmann, “it is still a [...]
Vessel to Vessel: What is God Doing to Me?
Being Poured from Vessel to Vessel “Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.” Jeremiah 48:11 The expression, “emptied from vessel [...]