The Bible doesn’t highlight many women, much less name them. When it does, we should take note. First Samuel starts with the story of Hannah, her infertility, her pain, her struggle to have a child and prove her worth to a world that didn’t value women, especially barren women. In chapter one we see her…
Category: Finding Encouragement
A Prayer for those Treading Water
Do you have a regular prayer that you repeat over and over? Margaret Feinberg shared in her book Wonderstruck about a time she become so weary in spirit that all she could pray was: God is good.God is on the throne.Breathe in.Breathe out. These were the words she whispered while making snow angels in the…
Are you free? Are you living like it?
Sometimes what we know in our heads doesn’t reach our hearts or our feet. How can we take steps toward truly walking in the freedom Christ came to give us?
Is this ADD or Spiritual attack?
I have ADD. When people hear reference to ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder), they think of the dogs in the Pixar movie UP! or maybe Dory from Pixar’s Finding Nemo. (I promise not to mention Disney movies in every sentence.) Being easily distracted and forgetful may be part of it, but there’s a lot more to it than most people…
Could there be a silver lining here?
When our son was five years old, he fell and shattered his femur into three pieces. ‘Shattered’ may sound a little dramatic, but when you watch your little guy suffer, when every nurse or doctor interrogates you over what happened, when someone in the ER finally confesses that typically injuries like this are caused by…
You still get to choose.
No matter what this year throws at us, we still get to choose the path we take. What will you do in this time? Who will you be today?
We are together, but not alone.
These are crazy times. Heavy times. It feels like every night we go to bed praying and every morning we wake worrying and wondering. What will we do? When will this end? How will our kids go to school? Will they be safe? Are we making the right choices? What about our jobs? What about…
Chasing Peace (and skipping the affirmation)
The fear of inadequacy has chased me my entire life. You can blame any number of things from my past or present, but let’s not. Rather, let’s talk about the struggle this presents in the dailies. Of all the theological concepts in Scripture, grace has always troubled me most. I love the idea of it…
Ways to Get Out of the Pit
If you read my last post, you know I have good days and bad days and I’m learning to be okay with not being okay. I don’t want to just leave it there, so even though I am no expert on escaping dark moods, I want to share a few things that help me. Maybe…
It’s okay if you’re not okay.
It was a simple enough text. I should have been able to answer it easily, quickly, without much thought. I didn’t. I couldn’t. That text sat unanswered on my phone for hours. Overnight even. I stewed over my reply. Should I be honest? Not great. I’m struggling. The world is falling apart and it sucks…
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