The Lies We Believe and the Truths We Need
Jesus wants to restore you. And make no mistake about it: He will also destroy the works of the enemy in your life.
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What You Need to Know About Hearing God’s Voice
…eventually, you’ll hear Him. Rejoicing over you with singing and proclaiming His name over you.
When Your Best Ideas Happen in the Most Unexpected Places
This is the heart of the matter: God can do anything.
Even Halfhearted Prayer Can Change Things
As meager and ineffective as my prayer seems, it nevertheless keeps me tethered to hope.
How to find joy in the land of unanswered prayer
The Lord taught me how to sigh in pain, how to weep in gladness, and how to trust during days of hope deferred.
We are all in the process of becoming: how we can learn to accept ourselves
Over the course of my life, I have learned to accept that I am still in process.
If You’ve Been Asking for God to Give You a Message: Here it is
His Word made the heavens — and His Word remakes our hearts.
How discovering and using your voice can change just about everything
I’m offering thanksgiving to God that He hears my voice and knows my struggle and looks on me with compassion.
When things are not as they should be yet still good
What if we could learn to “see through” to the deeper meaning of things and discover the beauty and love of God?
The Invitation to Notice: How my son with Down syndrome is teaching me the richness of a small, unhurried life
I judged my parenting based on whether my children were successful, polite, and kind. I judged my own value based on those standards as well.
When you lose your foothold and it all seems so overwhelming
It’s easy to become overwhelmed and to take our focus off of Him. In the darkest of hours, He teaches us to rest on His promises.
When you need to know how to befriend parts of your soul you’ve long denied
Our usual tendency is to avoid pain. But when you avoid your pain, you avoid opportunities for renewal and growth too.
What to do when your stuff exhausts you
We believe that home exists to serve people, not the other way around.
When Welcoming the Stranger Changes Your Own World
Before I even knew him, he called me friend.
