ROOTED RENEGADE

Prophetic Words, Testimonies of Grace, & Stories of Hope

  • Called to LOVE…

    I used to think that LOVE was a four letter word to be thrown around flippantly. I love you became three words that people said to be manipulative. Only to be said to get what they wanted or to cover up the fact that they just abused me, punches thrown, words said to cut in… Continue reading

  • Stop Running “Around” Your Wilderness.

    Exodus 13:17:18 “Now when Pharaoh had let the people go, God did not lead them through the way of the land of the Philistines, although it was nearby. For God said, “Lest the people change their minds when they see war, and they return to Egypt. Therefore, God led the people around, through the way… Continue reading

  • Something’s Missing…

    Sometimes in our lives we feel this incredible void inside our chest. Like something is missing. As women, many of us feel this inherent need to be with someone who will fill this void, whether it be a spouse or just a partner. But it is a void deep inside our chests that never seem… Continue reading

  • He is our Support

    I was driving to work and I noticed that the powder lines were supported with beams made out wood. Interestingly enough I had never made attention to their shape…A Cross. How is that I pass the same cross shaped supports every day and I never “pay attention”. I go day after day on the same… Continue reading

  • Black High Heeled Shoes

    Night after night she goes home alone Sometimes the memories plague her mind Of all the things in her life gone awry. People consistently telling her to stop just surviving Time to thrive Time to shine Because they can only see her scars in black and white. They don’t see the courage she begs God… Continue reading

  • Gripped by Fear

    Leaving Wal-Mart for the second time this week and all I see is fear, paranoia, lack of empathy, loneliness, and the weight of the world on every shoulder I try my best to follow the social distancing guidelines to stay away from. Funny, the first time I went for work for paint. This time I… Continue reading

  • Social Distancing…6 feet

    I was listening to a sermon this morning when it clicked. I had heard the teaching many times before but the distance part is what really hit home for me. With all the talk about social distancing going on across our globe…let us remember this very important fact in scripture. When Jesus was on the… Continue reading

  • Such a Time as This…

    For the first time in my life I am stunned. Not because of what is happening around me, a virus. Because of how my fellow neighbors are responding to a threat. Taking more than what they need, because of uncertainty. Fighting each other, offering money to strangers for the food in the grocery carts, stealing… Continue reading

  • March On…

    “We may speak, if we will, of the ‘wanderings of the children of Israel,’ but we must not think them purposeless strayings; they were in reality a well-arranged and well considered march.” (Spurgeon) I had never really put too much thought into the wanderings of the Israelites before beyond what I read in the Bible. I… Continue reading

  • All in the Name of Self-Care

    As I sat tonight in the bathtub, soaking, holding a dark purple bath bomb called “Galaxy”, while it fizzed in my hand.  I was reminded of the few times I actually allow myself to just sit in a tub full of water.  Be still.  Soak.  Submerse.  Let my nostrils be full of the smells of various fragrances.  This being the second… Continue reading