Rev. Susan Eaton
This Captive Heart - An Advent Prayer
I remember well the morning I wrote these words one year ago. Some days, the words just flow out. And flow they did, from a place of deep...
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Rev. Susan Eaton
Dec 7, 20205 min read
Craving the Deep
Just before Thanksgiving week this year, my husband and I saw a news article about a young, 35-foot sperm whale that got stranded in...
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Rev. Susan Eaton
Nov 19, 20202 min read
When Words Don't Come
When I first saw the meme below, my thought was, "Accurate." As the pandemic lingers on and even raises its ugly head with yet another...
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Rev. Susan Eaton
Nov 12, 20203 min read
Go Ahead! Toot Your Own Horn
Our back porch is one of my favorite places for reading and spending time alone with God, especially in the morning. I enjoy breathing...
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Rev. Susan Eaton
Oct 15, 20208 min read
What's the Big Deal? How Small Faults Are Robbing You of Power
It is an awesome consideration, and one which every Christian should bring home to our own bosoms, whether or not small faults willfully...
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Rev. Susan Eaton
Sep 30, 20202 min read
Making God
God, we’ve made you too small. Too small to handle our problems and pain, Too small to have the answers, Too small to create new...
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Rev. Susan Eaton
Sep 15, 20206 min read
Booster Shots & Mountain Tops
Mark 8:31-34; 9:2-8 “Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the...
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Rev. Susan Eaton
Apr 24, 20202 min read
For Parents of Children Struggling with Depression, Anxiety, or Other Mental Health Challenges
LEAN IN. Your child needs you more than you can comprehend right now. If he resists, press on. He is not resisting you. He is just in a...
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Rev. Susan Eaton
Apr 1, 20203 min read
In the Crushing, In the Pressing
I wrote this journal entry three months ago on Christmas morning. I share this with you now because it seems like we are collectively...
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Rev. Susan Eaton
Mar 20, 20204 min read
Do Not Worry
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is...
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Rev. Susan Eaton
Feb 26, 20203 min read
Catching the Breath of Your Creator - Thoughts on Ash Wednesday
There’s a song by Hillsong United that comes up on one of my Spotify playlists called So Will I. I’ve really come to love this song. It's...
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Rev. Susan Eaton
Feb 6, 20202 min read
The Truest Thing About You
The truest thing about you is not what people say, what they think, what they do, or how they treat you. Other people are walking around...
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Rev. Susan Eaton
Jan 31, 20202 min read
Writing as a Form of Obedience - Guest Post by Lexus McCormick
Since May, I’ve felt like the Lord was asking me to write. See, I have these big dreams of writing something great. I don’t know what it...
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Rev. Susan Eaton
Jan 15, 20203 min read
This Kind Can Come Out Only Through Prayer
(Please take a moment to read Mark 9:14-29) In Mark 9 we read a dramatic story of a desperate father who fiercely wants his son to be...
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Rev. Susan Eaton
Dec 16, 20191 min read
An Advent Prayer
Captive. I’ve become imprisoned, once again, to captors I thought I’d left behind, willingly walking back into old familiar prisons of my...
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Rev. Susan Eaton
Dec 12, 20193 min read
Tomorrow Will Be Better
Today's post is a guest post from my dear friend, Melody Simms. I hope you will read it, then read it again, then write down sentences,...
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Susan Eaton
Nov 2, 20196 min read
Go Rip Some Roofs Apart
"Then some people came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them. And when they could not bring him to Jesus because of...
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Susan Eaton
Oct 18, 20191 min read
Too Far Gone?
Out of the pit He will lift you up. God's salvation is here— God's hand reaches down to save you. Look up! Take hold! See His face! His...
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Susan Eaton
Sep 2, 20197 min read
What a Day in Traffic Court Taught Me About Sacramental Living
It was a sunny Tuesday morning and I was on my way to staff meeting when I saw the blue lights. My heart skipped a beat as I quickly...
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Susan Eaton
Jul 30, 20194 min read
You Can’t Have a Resurrection Without a Death—or Why We Need to Be Like the Jack Pine
It’s fascinating to me how the principles that take place in nature are many times principles that are true in our spiritual lives as...
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