There have been a few times in my life when I’ve wanted something desperately. I’ve prayed and believed for it, I’ve done everything in my own power to make it happen, and I’ve asked for help. But the door to that thing I wanted remained closed.
Read MoreThere’s a story in the gospels (see John 4) about a woman who met Jesus at a well. She was at this well during the hot part of the day so she could draw water at a time when the others wouldn’t be there. She wanted to avoid them because she lived with shame.
She was a woman who had five failed marriages. The man she lived with was not her husband. She was a mess. Jesus knew all of this and he had a purpose behind what happened next.
Read MoreI can still remember my fourth grade teacher telling me I was a good writer. I had never thought about myself that way, not until that moment. I believed her when she said it because I respected her. I’m thankful Mrs. Larson took the time to encourage me the way she did. It had a lasting impact. Today, I’m a writer, doing exactly what I love most. She probably had something to do with that.
Read MoreThis week I hope to inspire us to look at the habits we keep- specifically the habits that help us to grow into more mature Christians. Habits for Our Holiness is the name of a book by Philip Nation. In it, he says,
“The things we plant in our lives are the things that grow in our lives.”Read More
“If destruction fails to entangle us, distraction will do it’s best.” – Beth Moore
As I sit here at my desk preparing to write, to share something that I hope ministers to you, dear readers, I find myself needing to practice first, the very thing I want to share with you today. I need to stop and listen. I need to quiet my mind and listen for God to speak.
Read More"We have two ears and one mouth so we can listen twice as much as we speak." – Epictetus (Greek philosopher)
Read MoreA year after I graduated from high school I left everything I knew and traveled to Texas, far from my home in Washington State, to work as a live-in nanny for a family that I had never met before.
Read MoreI have something I need to confess today.
I absolutely love to eat!
In fact, it’s part of our family tree—to love good food, love eating, and talk about eating. We are food people. Foodies.
Read MoreStepping into the unknown is seldom comfortable. Yet, we do it every day.
But somehow life has a way of lulling us into a false sense of control. Maybe it’s those routines we love.
Those patterns we find ourselves repeating day after day.
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