06/05/2026
Some lessons are learned in Scripture study.
Others are learned while sitting with disappointment.
Lately I have been reflecting on the kind of trimming that happens when relationships change, people become distant, conversations never happen, and questions remain unanswered.
The heart naturally wants explanations. It wants to know what happened, what changed, and why. It searches for reasons and tries to make sense of things that may never be fully understood this side of eternity.
Yet I am discovering that God is often more interested in preserving the flame than providing immediate answers.
As I have been working on my upcoming manuscript, The Lamp Keeper: Exploring the Mystery of Oil and Lamps, I found myself writing about a different kind of pruning. Not the pruning of habits or behaviors, but the pruning that takes place in the heart when we experience loss, disappointment, misunderstanding, or the ache of what might have been.
This passage comes from a chapter called The Midnight Cry.