I was standing at the bus stop in Tampa, FL early in the morning. I had only been healed of Dissociative Identity Disorder a little over 3 months and I was dealing with the repercussions of…
Radical to the World, Normal in the Kingdom
Radical obedience. Radical faith. Radical surrender. Radical forgiveness. Radical love. Have you heard any of these phrases before? How did they make you feel? Here’s the truth, and it might be a hard truth to hear,…
Snuggle Up
Part of preparing for my morning time with God involves getting my dog, Riley, settled. Ordinarily, this looks like giving her permission to join me on the couch and then opening my arms and saying, “Snuggle…
God Knows, Sees, and Understands
I took Riley out for a short potty walk this morning. Oh, how she wanted to go further, faster. And, I wanted to let her. She wanted to jump into the bushes onto the critters moving the branches and walk through the deep, muddy grass. And, I wanted to let her. Instead, I directed her to cleaner places with lower grass and no sticks, to keep as much gunk as possible out of the incisions on her foot and chest. I kept her leash short and slowed my own pace to keep her calm and moving slowly. Her eyes kept pleading with me – “Let’s gooooo, Mom. Let’s…
The Story of My Name
The opportunity to talk about my name has come up a lot in the past few weeks and I realized that even though I have written about it and shared about it in other places, I have not shared about it here and it feels like time. I was born Angela Dawn Andruss. I loved my name. Angel of the Morning. I also felt a very strong connection to my last name. Heritage is important to me and the ties that a name has to family roots matters. January 17, 998, I gave my heart to Christ. This was not my initial encounter with Jesus. I had had…
Where Do We Put Our Trust, Part 5
Luke 9:3 And He said to them, “Take nothing for your journey, neither a staff nor a bag, nor bread, nor money; and do not even have two tunics apiece.” Jesus sent the twelve on an…
Where Do We Place Our Trust, Part 3
Isaiah 31:4-5 For thus says the LORD to me, “As the lion or the young lion growls over his prey, against which a band of shepherds is called out, and he will not be terrified at…
Where Do We Place Our Trust, Part 2
Isaiah 31:1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and rely on horses and trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong but they do not…