Kirstin Ricketts | Hold Loosely, Live Freely

Our Assignment May Be Different Than We Think

by Kirstin Ricketts | Aug 19, 2020 | Faith Matters, The Blog

I wonder if life is meant to be lived as a series of assignments. As emails rolled in from school, I was beginning to think that my assignment may be to teach our kids at home this year. As I talked with God about that (in my head while out for a run), I felt God...

400 Feet At A Time

by Kirstin Ricketts | Aug 16, 2020 | The Blog

When you pull up Google Maps and type in your destination, it tells you what to do in the next 400 feet. As life and plans seem to be continually changing, I wonder…could we learn to follow God that way? Could this time in the pandemic train our reflexes to...

Sometimes We Have To Climb The Rock

by Kirstin Ricketts | Aug 14, 2020 | Faith Matters, The Blog

Sometimes you have to climb the rock. We visited Rocky Mountain National Park this summer. As we drove, the steep rocks on each side of the road seemed immovable. I tried to consider some pictures of God, but my heart felt discouraged. At times during this season, I...

What To Do When God Gives You The Opposite of What You Ask For

by Kirstin Ricketts | Aug 12, 2020 | Faith Matters, The Blog

God can be trusted, I know He can…yet sometimes I can’t believe what seems to be happening around me. So what can we do when it just doesn’t make sense or when we are just plain disappointed? Maybe even when we wonder if God got this one wrong. Tell Him the...

We Don’t Have To Do This Alone

by Kirstin Ricketts | Aug 10, 2020 | The Blog

Teaching kids to wakeboard is one of my favorite things…watching their eyes light up when they see what they can do. It takes grit to get on top of the water. Every time I wakeboard, I still get a little nervous when the boat takes off. It reminds me of pushing...