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His Word made the heavens — and His Word remakes our hearts.
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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 We All Need A Song of Hope
We are not failures, not un-beautiful, not unworthy after all.
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.
How to Make Peace with Daily Bread
Sometimes the bread I’m sent just isn’t the bread I want.
Traveling a Winding Road from our Suburbs to our Sahara: Going Global as an Ordinary Person
It starts with us—ordinary, regular us—taking one step, then two, and then a hundred small steps in an intentional direction.
How can we have joy no matter what life brings our way?
Remember, it is into the emptiness that our God came. He filled the void with Light and Life.
What We Can Offer to a World Crying Out (and it’s not what you think)
In the span of God’s wide and rowdy family, we all belong to one another and there is no such thing as other people’s children.
A Fix for the Disconnect Between Your Head and Your Heart
We’ve all experienced the difficulty of putting our head knowledge into life practice.
When you need to know it’s Okay Not to Be Okay
There is no image that displays the love of God more perfectly than the scars of Jesus. The scars tell God’s story.
