by Kirstin Ricketts | Jan 28, 2022 | All The Things, The Blog
When you get quiet enough, you can start to hear the brown leaf tumbling across the path. When you get quiet enough and sit near the creek that appears to be completely frozen, you can begin to hear water flowing beneath the ice and if you stay in silence the water...
by Kirstin Ricketts | Jan 20, 2022 | The Blog
There was a season when I believe God told me not to dream. It wasn’t a short season. It was about seven years. Would God tell us not to dream? In His generosity, I had to stop dreaming because I was in an endless cycle of doing. The end of what God said went like...
by Kirstin Ricketts | Jan 13, 2022 | Home Sweet Home, The Blog
With all of the chaos surrounding the rising covid numbers in our area this week, I wonder if this might help. A gal in our prayer group shared this illustration and it brought so much clarity. She said, “We weren’t made to be thermometers. Thermometers take the...
by Kirstin Ricketts | Jan 6, 2022 | Faith Matters, The Blog
If I’m honest, when people start asking me what my word of the year is, it makes my eyes do this really weird squinty thing they do when I’m trying to blink away unwanted pressure. Is it worth it? I want to tell you no! Skip the pressure, stay in bed and...
by Kirstin Ricketts | Dec 31, 2021 | All The Things, The Blog
As you dream about 2022 what if we choose to let God. Let God lead our dreams. Let God guide our prayers. Let God call us to Himself. I am hearing so often, “I’m not doing this enough” or “I’m not praying enough” I wonder if God is inviting us to show up and let Him....
by Kirstin Ricketts | Nov 23, 2021 | Faith Matters, The Blog
As I walked along the Sea of Galilee this fall I thought I heard God say to write an Advent guide. I wondered if it would be based on the sites I’d seen while in Israel and so I tried to put things together but it never felt right. So I waited. On the flight home,...