Align Our Hearts With Yours
I believe we are to stand for the widows and orphans. Webster’s dictionary defines an orphan as “one deprived of some protection or advantage.” I believe we have to stand for the babies that need protection. What does this mean for fertility? I don’t know, but I do...
What To Do When God Gives You The Opposite of What You Ask For
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 truth...
He’s Still There
My new favorite morning spot is a swivel chair in my living room. I grab my coffee, turn the chair towards the windows and watch the sunrise over our grassy field. It’s quiet, and every morning has something new to see, but the sunrise is constant. Today, as I watched...
What Is God Resurrecting In You?
You may have heard it said, "If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" Okay. But how? What does that even mean? What it means is that areas of your life that seem rotten, God can bring new life to. Areas that seem dead, He...
What Must You Let Die- So You Can Live?
Are Good Friday and Easter hard to connect with? I wonder if this might help. As I watch this next season of life unfold, what I am noticing with my kids is how we let parts of ourselves die so they might live. We let our expectations of them, we let molding them...
What Would You Do If You Were Not Afraid?
I was reading a book to my kids and it was full of sketches, some colored and some not. Teddy my kindergartner stopped me and said, “Mom can I color the pictures?” “Of course Teddy.” “But mom what if I color outside the lines?” What I heard in his voice was fear. His...
Is There More For You?
If God is real then what? If there was a greater story than the one you see right in front of you, would it be a good idea to know what that is? If there was a life of deep-seated joy and peace available, if there was a God who would protect and provide and be your...
How Do You Ask God For Something?
For a long time praying, to me, felt like paper airplanes thrown into the air to an Almighty God that I couldn’t quite wrap my head around. Hope thrown into the darkness, into the expanse of the sky. To me, the word “pray” was so overused that it seemed to have lost...