The blog name - Struggling Spirit - comes from reading Martin Luther's Works "Sermons on the Gospel of John" Chapters 14 - 16. Luther speaks about the Holy Spirit - the Spirit of Truth and reminds us that Christ tells us "The Spirit of truth will guide you into all the truth." As he talks about the struggles and grief that Christians face, he reminds us that the Holy Spirit has the power to guide us and to bring us truth. He also speaks of how the Spirit will continue to convict us in our hearts as sinners, still full of weakness - yet God's dear children and saints. This is often referred to using the Latin Simul justus et peccator - simultaneously just (saint) and sinner.

I feel this sometimes as a struggle within my spirit, because of The Spirit. So to reflect the "both/and" of that statement - I named the blog Struggling Spirit.

These are my thoughts - sometimes they will be framed within a theological construct, and sometimes appearing as I experience them - which may appear random, and objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear.

Struggling Spirit - struggling in the Spirit, or struggling because of the Spirit? Let's see...