faith-driven lifestyle
faith-driven lifestyle
Maybe you've walked six weeks with Asher and the storm is still going. Maybe the miracle you hoped for at the beginning hasn't arrived yet. That's an honest place to be — and exactly the right place to begin the final week. Because gratitude is not what you feel after the miracle. It's the prayer you practice toward it.
We know Romans 8:38 by heart. Nothing can separate us from the love of God. And yet — quietly, in the back of the drawer — we keep a list of exceptions. This week, Asher helps us burn it.
I named him Asher — the blessed one. This week, we find out why. We cannot program God for arriving. But we can be in the valley when the word is spoken. That is enough. That has always been enough.
You know the theology. You believe in God's greatness. But whether God's love lands on you specifically — that's another question. Week 4 of Seven Nights with Asher explores the gap between doctrine and personal claim.
Asher breaks every chain they put on him. But he is not free. He is not winning. He is caught in something that has become, over years of repetition, the whole of what he knows himself to be. This week we sit with the thing you cannot stop — and begin, one breath at a time, to build the ground underneath it.
Among the tombs, Asher chains himself in darkness — but across the lake, something still calls. Week 1 of Seven Nights with Asher: a creative retelling of Mark 5:3, body-centred commentary, and a 7-day embodied prayer worksheet for Lent.
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Two men. One stormy night. A fisherman white-knuckling the oars in a sinking boat. A man screaming among the tombs on the far shore. In the Gospel of Mark, their stories collide when Jesus crosses a deadly storm to reach the one soul everyone else has given up on. This is the story of Asher — the demoniac of Gerasa — and the seven nights that Christ spent walking into the darkest places to bring the lost home.
Over the next seven encounters, we'll trace the journey from chains to freedom, from screaming to silence, from self-hatred to surrender. No easy answers. No three-step programs. Just raw honesty about what it means to be found by God when you're at your most lost.
