“Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.” God used this verse + a raw video message from His heart to show me where I needed to step back and look at myself first. My own grief and stress had bled through in ways I regret. He meets us in our heaviness—not with shame, but with tenderness. You are never a burden to Him.
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Housekeeping: Closing Comments to Protect Our Space
A necessary housekeeping update: comments are now closed across Twin Tree Project to protect our peace and community from rising hatred and threats. Feedback is still welcome through the contact form or email. This space remains one of authenticity, grace, and honest faith.
Twisted Truths | The Only Time You Should Look Back… (And Why That’s a Lie)
On the anniversary of my daddy’s birthday, I push back against the viral platitude “The only time you should look back is to see how far you’ve come.” Memories aren’t anchors, they’re altars. A reflection on grief, holy remembrance, and why looking back is sacred, biblical work.
Sunday Sessions | Blows of Fate: Beethoven and the Symphony of Grace
There is a story behind the most recognizable four notes in all of Western music. Most of us have heard them: that short, insistent dun-dun-dun-dunnn that opens Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. We associate it with grandeur, with concert halls, with something important arriving. What we do not always know is that those four notes were born in something far less majestic. Beethoven called them the “blows of fate,” a phrase he used to describe the recurring difficulties that punctuated his life. The knocks did not stop. They kept coming. What he did was write them into the music anyway, and then he wrote past them, into something that sounds, unmistakably, like triumph. Not because the difficulties were resolved. But because he moved through them without being destroyed by them. I have thought about that a great deal lately.
Verse & Vision | May 22, 2026
The last fifteen years have been a lot. Cancer. Alzheimer’s. Caregiving. Loss after loss – the kind that moves in and stacks up until it pulls you under with it. And layered underneath all of that, my own mess. But He was before all of it. And in Him, somehow, all of it is holding together. Not in spite of the wreckage. Through it. Anything good you see in me is just God. It comes from being dragged by Him through the refiner’s fire, and Him giving my heart the strength to beat at all.
Did You Know? | The Credibility of the Bible
The Bible is sixty-six books written by forty different people over fifteen hundred years. Archaeologists have used it to uncover civilizations scholars insisted never existed. Over three hundred prophecies described one specific person centuries before he arrived – and then Jesus fulfilled all of them. The witnesses who saw him die and come back didn’t return to wealth or power. They returned to testimony, and died for it. The proof is abundant. It is, at the very least, worth considering.
The Survival Manual I Almost Overlooked | The Author’s Perspective
I’ve been failing the test lately, with the weight of the world pressing down until it felt like water closing over my head. But God was determined to remind me of the survival manual He left us for times exactly like these. Through a stranger’s words on X, my mother’s “ghost,” and a chain of events that only make sense if He lined every single one up, God showed me how to stop carrying the wrong weight… and how to shift into the one posture that actually changes everything: counting it all joy.