What’s your story? I’ve wanted to ask that question so many times to family, friends, and even strangers. What I mean by that question is: We all have a story and I love when I get the chance to talk with someone one-on-one and hear a bit of their story. These are my favorite kinds…
When Life Doesn’t Look Like You Thought It Would
I am learning to be with what is. That sounds like an incomplete sentence, doesn’t it? But I am learning to be—to be content—with what feels like an incomplete day and an incomplete life. Life in this season is not exactly how I had it pictured but if you were to ask me how I…
The Day My Quiet Time Died
Hello, lovely friends. Today I want to share with you a wonderful book I’ve been reading. I’m not done with it yet as it is one of those books that requires time and attention to read slowly and digest. If the amount of underlining and notes scribbled in the margins with exclamations and question marks…
Thoughts on Self-Promotion and the Gospel
I’ve been reading “The Pursuit of God” by A.W. Tozer. He wrote it in 1948. On page 40 I run head-on into this: It is woven of the fine threads of the self-life, the hyphenated sins of the human spirit. They are not something we do, they are something we are , and therein lies…
The Resolution
This morning I awoke too early to thoughts of failure in the execution of my life—guilt and regret robbing me of peaceful sleep. I prayed a simple prayer, “Oh Lord, help me”, before I rolled out of bed to face the day. My stomach churned as I thought of my list. I sighed at the…
ABANDONED: HOW I’M LEARNING TO BE A CHILD OF GOD
She abandoned her whole self to the Lord, with all that she was and all that she had, and, believing that He took that which she had committed to Him, she ceased to fret and worry, and her life became all sunshine in the gladness of belonging to Him. A Very Simple Secret It is…