Month: September 2013

From what you have read, it might seem that the cleft is a place to go to and leave again.  But one of the great mysteries of the Christian life is learning how to live in the presence of a Continue reading Living in the Cleft→

Are you interested in making a cleft of your own?  Here are some ideas on where to start.  The first thing to do is ask God where and when He would like to meet with you.  Take His counsel first. Continue reading Making your own Cleft→

When I was a new believer, I had a simple Bible – no red letters, no commentaries, etc.  It was just my Bible and my grandfather’s rocking chair.  After I was dressed and ready for work, I would sit down Continue reading Places I made into Clefts→

I was blessed when I began searching for the cleft.  I was a young married woman, working, and without children.  I had time in the morning before I left for work, not long, but enough to establish a habit of Continue reading Making time for the Cleft→

The dictionary defines a cleft as an opening made by or as by cleaving; crack, crevice. It is also described as a hollow between two parts. We first see the cleft in scripture in Exodus 33:21 and 22.  “Behold, there Continue reading What is the Cleft?→

I grew up the oldest in a family of five children, the product of a broken marriage. My father and I were never close after the divorce when I was 13. I struggled with acceptance at school and elsewhere, feeling Continue reading Finding a new life→