Star for the Journey

Spiritual Growth

  • Seeing More Clearly

    I used to have a rather romantic idea of spiritual growth. When I first became a Christian, I assumed maturity would eventually arrive like some sort of heavenly graduation ceremony. One day I would wake up, angels would probably sing a few bars of Handel’s Messiah, and I would glide through life with remarkably few…

  • Tenderness Beneath the Turbulence

    Scripture Focus: “He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; He led him about, He instructed him, He kept him as the apple of His eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: so the…

  • Made for More

    Scripture Focus: 2 Corinthians 5:17“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” Before the butterfly takes flight in a burst of color and grace, it begins as something much simpler—slow, grounded, and far from glamorous. A little like how many…