The Quill of Samantha Grace Newcastle

Writings that cover real people, real situations, real emotions and raw truth. Not limited to one subject or area.

  • Truth, rapture

    The rapture and the second coming of Christ are two distinct events described clearly in the Bible, and confirmed by the meaning of… More.

  • The Cyclades: Particularly Mykonos

    In the Cyclades, where light became prayer,and Mykonos held the sea in its arms, you looked at me; and in that quiet, you… More.

  • The Heroine, quite literally

    This is severe POTS (postural or thostatic tachvcardia svndrome). Rachel stands in a world that does not always hold her up.There are days… More.

  • ,Life,

    The edge of the Sea and pale darkness the flow of the dress, the chair only a Queen can be placed inTouching, feeling,… More.

  • Life before me

    I saw life before me, resting quietly at the edge of sight.My horizon did not stretch wide and distant; it gathered itself close.It… More.

  • help, always help….

    One of the most beautiful things about following Jesus is that He never asked us to fill a pew or only show up… More.

  • worth it?  nope!

    I move through life hour by hour, carrying a weight of unresolved guilt, grief, anger, and a loneliness that never truly leaves. Inside… More.

  • Grace Wins

    Most of the time, life does not look like what we prayed for. Things fall apart, people leave, doors close, and delays feel… More.

  • choices and lessons

    There was a morning in the woods I will carry for the rest of my life…… December 1985Dad and I stood still, breath… More.

  • Effective Tactics, not victory

    Some of the enemy’s most effective tactics are not loud, dramatic, or obvious. They are quiet. Subtle. Gradual. They do not always look… More.

  • Hamster Wheel

    If military training had been structured the way some churches, religious programs, or pseudo biblical studies are, and trained people by repeating the… More.

  • from the picture come the words

    In life, we are born, we grow, we fade,,,,, we die. What we produce: the words, deeds, actions, thoughts, results, speech, responses, manners… More.

  • Noah, righteousness , faith, truth,

    God did not spare that old world, but He saved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, while judgment came upon the ungodly.Now when I… More.

  • There is no one better

    Rachel walks as one who has heard the quiet voicenot in thunder, not in spectacle but in the stillness where truth is planted… More.

  • roots, strength, death

    Beneath the trunk, the roots held fast They carried the tree through weather and years They worked in silence deep below the reach… More.

  • 64 of 1000

    I am… I kept giving parts of myself away like it was the right thing to do. Like it meant something to leave… More.

  • Read, study, learn

    If you can know sports or menus you can know truth Look at the attached picture… There are millions of these all over… More.

  • Rants Raves Truths

    If love and Christ were truly being offered, then why are so many pews empty?Because people can smell the difference between Christ and… More.

  • I once called

    Age comes back slow not gentle, not kind   it does not blur the past, it sharpens it  edges clean like broken glass you… More.

  • Shadows of her

    She moved between hours as though they were veils, lifting one, abandoning another, never belonging to the moment that held her The air… More.

  • really take a look at you and what you do

    worldly ways Addiction is proof that you’re capable of intense devotion. You are just serving the wrong godThe same mind, heart, and body… More.

  • it is who I am, yet why I hurt

    I am the kind of person who feels before I think, the kind who listens without watching the clock, who stays even when… More.

  • You, Yourself,

    They will call you Sun, Wind, Drought, or Rain, depending on the season of life they met you in.Where I am from, we… More.

  • The ballet, she touches

    She dreams of movement, of turning without measure, of a body answering the quiet pull of joy. She imagines her feet learning the language… More.

  • wolves are wolves not truth

    A true church should not normalize what Scripture plainly calls worldliness; when a church gives a platform to people whose public message glorifies… More.