Most of our marriage, Cherise has experienced great health in comparison to the backdrop of Gordon's cascading health challenges. However, we recently experienced a reversal of health challenges. Through this journey, we were led to reflect on the things we've been holding on too tightly for too many years that we cannot control – “cutting the rope” as Mark Batterson says. We asked the Lord to expose anything that needed to be exposed in our lives (in the form of idols) – a very dangerous prayer that led us to give up our Florida home.

What we think we have put in a place in our lives to “hedge” our pain and create safety may be the very rope that has to be cut because it is strangling us and we don’t even know it. That hedge causes self-protection and restricts our freedom to carry onwards.

Join us in this discussion on the deep pruning happening in our lives right now!