Listen & Reflect · 4 reflections

What do you need encouragement for today?

Every reflection is a song and a story. Start where you are, not with who is singing.

NewestNo. 004

The day the sail broke

A broken sail off a Jamaican beach, a rescue no one could call for, like Fred Hammond, I promise to keep saying thanks and not complain.

2 songs · about 12 min listening · 4-min read

Earlier reflections

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    Hiding in the right place

    I once hid in my bedroom from a fire I had started, and Karen Clark Sheard's song about a secret place taught me that the refuge God offers is not an escape from reality but the strength to face it.

    Perseverance · Faith · Hope · Refuge1 song · about 6 min listening · 4-min read
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    More Than This Life

    A Clark Sisters song about living blessed, and why, after more than two years unemployed, I have come to see my hardest season as a process and not a conclusion.

    Perseverance · Faith · Doubt · Hope · Gratitude1 song · about 5 min listening · 3-min read
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    Why My Label Is Not My Destiny

    Jabez prayed from a place of pain for God to enlarge his territory, and this song encourages me during my unemployed, in debt, and fighting the feeling that rejection had made me a failure.

    Perseverance · Faith · Doubt · Identity · Hope1 song · about 7 min listening · 3-min read