Living Journal

18/10/2025

Link to my reflection and prayer for discernment when the world feels heavy 🙏

https://open.substack.com/pub/mylivingjournal/p/righteous-imprecation?r=5e63nh&utm_medium=ios

10/10/2025

I came across this while looking through the pages of my journal. I honestly don’t recall if I was writing from a sermon, a devotional, or if it all came from my own reflections — but either way, it’s solid truth.I hope it blesses you like it did me.

06/10/2025

I consider myself new to reading the Bible, working my way from Genesis and now sitting in the Psalms, each chapter seeming new and alive. I’ve never felt so connected to every word, even though I’ve known the stories of the Bible and of Jesus my entire life.

Why does this season feel different, and not just for me? Everywhere I look, there’s a stirring, a revival rising through people searching for the promise that is greater than themselves.

With deeper reflection comes deeper questions. You may have them as well. As I read and pray, I keep circling back to one simple truth: Jesus doesn’t allow us to remain neutral.

C. S. Lewis captured this in what’s called the Trilemma, the idea that there are only three honest ways to see Jesus: Liar, Lunatic, or Lord.

At first, that may sound too narrow. But when you sit with it, the options really do narrow down to those three. A man who claims to forgive sins, perform miracles, and be one with God cannot be referred to as merely “a good teacher.” If He wasn’t who He said He was, He was either deeply deceived or deliberately deceitful.

Some say that His disciples exaggerated His words. Others say translations changed or evolved. But if you follow that reasoning, you have to pull the same thread through the entire Bible. If His followers fabricated His identity or translations redirected it, then how do we trust any of it? Why quote His moral teachings as truth while dismissing the heart of who He claimed to be?

And history itself won’t let us off so easily. Jesus wasn’t crucified for being gentle, wise, or kind. He was killed because He claimed to be God and demonstrated power that unsettled both religion and empire.

You don’t kill a myth.

You kill a man who says things too dangerous to ignore.

Others argue that He was simply ambitious; a man moved by conviction, a visionary swept up in His own cause. But that still lands within the Trilemma.

If ambition led Him to mislead others, that’s deceit, and He’s a liar.

If He truly believed He was divine but wasn’t, that’s delusion, and falls under the lunatic side.

And if neither fits; if His words still breathe life, if His peace still changes people two thousand years later, then only one conclusion remains: Lord.

Lewis didn’t write to corner people in logic; he wrote to clear the illusions. Jesus never left us a middle ground. Every person, in every generation, is asked to decide what they believe about Him, not by inherited religion, but by encounter.

For me, the more I read, the more I sit with His crucifixion; the impossibility of His peace and power, the less I can call Him a liar or lunatic. The evidence of grace in my own life, and the way I sense His truth alive in every page, moving through hearts around the world, echoing through centuries of faith and renewal, leaves only one conclusion.

Even with questions still unanswered, I accept it all, trusting that His perfection far exceeds my ability to comprehend something so powerful.

The same Spirit that moved through those ancient words is moving now, calling hearts awake again.

He is who He said He is.

14/09/2025

Read my full reflection here 🙏❤️: https://open.substack.com/pub/mylivingjournal/p/let-this-fire-light-the-way

03/09/2025

https://open.substack.com/pub/mylivingjournal/p/a-reflection-on-identity-habits-and

28/08/2025

Ice Cubes & Esther is a quick reflection on worship, Gus’s ice cubes, and Esther 4:14. Which of the 3 D’s - delay, distraction, dissuasion- shows up for you?

For such a time as this. I needed this reminder today - maybe you do, too. Check out my new post!

15/08/2025

New on the journal: “Stay Close to the Vine” is a reflection on growth, Spirit-led living, and where true nourishment comes from … especially when you’ve been trying hard on your own.
Read here →

Faith • Wellness • Words 📚 A journal of life through the lens of healing, Scripture, & creativity. ✍️

29/07/2025

✨ Eternity Already Written ✨

I found myself back in Ecclesiastes 3:11 today:

“He has made everything beautiful in its time.
He has also set eternity in the human heart…”

It’s a verse I’ve returned to many times and one I’ve shared with my son when things don’t make sense,
when life feels confusing or unfinished.

We may not always understand God’s plan…
but that’s where faith steps in.

Solomon wrote these words long before Jesus walked the earth.
And yet, he still recognized it;
this ache, this pull, this knowing.

But it’s more than that.
Solomon didn’t just sense that we were made for something more.
He carried a depth of wisdom that reached into the same questions we still wrestle with today.

And even he admitted:
no one can fully grasp what God has done from beginning to end.

That kind of wisdom, held with humility? Incredible.
Solomon was a remarkable man.

Eternity isn’t just an idea.
It’s a God-planted awareness;
something He places within us,
not something we invent, earn, or stumble into.

It’s the quiet knowing that there’s more to life than this moment…
and the holy tension of not being able to fully grasp what that “more” looks like.

That’s the point -
not to understand everything,
but to be drawn toward the One who does.

Because faith doesn’t grow in certainty.
It grows in the space between what we can see…
and what we trust is true.

Somewhere in that space between our knowing and our wondering…
is the whisper of eternity God placed within.

28/07/2025

⚓️ Stay Anchored: A Living Journal Reflection

Yesterday, Charlotte Gambill with Church of the Highlands shared a message that stirred something in me and shed light on something happening in my own home.

She talked about agreement as a key. That we can’t get to the next level in life, faith, or even relationships if we haven’t dropped our anchor on an agreed-upon value. And when we don’t, we shift with every disagreement. Every strong emotion. Every unmet need.

She said: “If you haven’t dropped your anchor on an agreed value, then every time the wind shifts, so do you.”

And I realized: we’re all doing it.

Not just me. Not just one moment of frustration. But as a family, we each show up trying to be understood, trying to get our point across, trying to be heard, but we’re not always anchored to what we actually value.

So small arguments take center stage. Tension rises. Egos get involved. And somewhere in the shuffle, our shared values - love, grace, unity - gets quiet.

But I don’t want that to be the loudest thing in the room.

The message reminded me: my values need to speak louder than my opinions. That way, my need to be heard isn’t tied to ego, but to agreement. To staying anchored. To staying rooted in what matters.

So today, I’m checking the anchor in our home. Not to blame. Not to fix. But to realign.

Are we holding fast to the things we truly value Or are we drifting?

Lord, help us stay rooted in Your presence, not our positions - be the steady ground we return to.

26/07/2025

✨ A New Chapter Begins: Welcome to Living Journal

Many of you first connected with me through yoga, wellness, or Scripture-based encouragement and I’m so thankful for that. That part of me is still here. But as life unfolds, so does the calling to share more deeply.

This space is evolving - becoming a home for my writing, my books, and the quiet truths that find their way to the page.

📚 I’m currently writing and publishing children’s books and faith-based reflections through Fox & Thistle Publishing - stories meant to spark wonder, comfort, and truth.

📝 I’ll also be sharing pieces of my own living journal:
writings, moments, and ideas that reflect what we all live through - things I hope will resonate with you, encourage you, or gently shift how you see your own story.

🌿 You’ll still find wellness, movement, and grace-based encouragement here, but now woven with words, creativity, and quiet depth.

This is Living Journal:
A space where story meets stillness,
where truth is tucked into everyday moments, where we remember we’re not alone in how we feel or what we’ve lived.

Because life writes the best stories… divinely whispered just for you.

Whether you’re here for books, reflection, or a little reminder that your story matters - welcome.
Let’s keep noticing what’s worth writing down.
🤍Cinnamon

23/02/2025

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