Kim Marie

When the Spirit Teaches the Soul How to Hope Again There is a striking and beautiful maturity woven through Psalms 42 and 43 — a maturity not rooted in emotional strength but in inner discipleship . These two psalms reveal what it looks like when a believer chooses to let the spirit , the God-conscious part of the inner life, speak directly to the soul , the part where emotions, desires, and discouragement often settle. In this way, the psalmist becomes both the struggler and the shepherd of...

A Quiet-Morning Reflection Inspired by Galatians 5:19–24 Christmas has a way of awakening something deep within the believer’s heart. Even before the first carol is sung or the lights are strung, there rises an inward pull—a longing for warmth, for peace, for joy, for something more than the world around us can offer. And Scripture shows us why that longing is there. Galatians 5:19–24 paints two contrasting portraits: one of the world without Christ, and one of the life made possible because...

Thanksgiving has a way of calling people out — out of isolation, out of self-preservation, out of the quiet corners where we tend to retreat. It draws us toward tables where we might not normally sit, with people we might not normally gather, except that a day on the calendar invites us to come together. Sometimes all we need is that simple call to action . And in this way — Thanksgiving resembles Salvation. For Salvation too calls us out from isolation, that shadowed place where the enemy...