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Are We Willing To Accept The Love God Has For Us?

by Kirstin Ricketts | Aug 21, 2020 | Faith Matters, The Blog

When my kids get up in the morning, they know where to find me. One by one, they come into my office. I was sitting on the couch and Samantha came to sit next to me, but when I put my arm around her, she tucked and rolled away. This same little girl sneaks into my bed...

Exchange Worry for Trust

by Melissa Cheatham | Aug 20, 2020 | The Blog

Somehow I thought this fall we would find everything magically clicking back into place, but as we all know, that is just not how it’s shaping up. Things are still out of our control, which increases my desire to “micro-manage” life. I try to take...

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...