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Why It’s Okay For the Holidays to Start Feeling Dark
Christmas comes for our grief. Christmas comes for the sadness we can’t speak out loud, Christmas comes to crush all our dark, Christmas comes for our wounded ache.
House Flipping + You + Our New Fair Trade Store = World Fixer Uppers
Wherever there is a place of Grace — we all find more of Home.
When Welcoming the Stranger Changes Your Own World
Before I even knew him, he called me friend.
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.
Adoption, Conversations, Eucharistic Living, Faith, Family, humility, Refiner's Fire, Seeing God, The Broken Way, The Way of Abundance, Unity
Cure for Lust of a Good Image: When Your Family Isn’t Really Who You Think
We are family not because we bear the same last name — but because we bear the image of the same God.
When Life is Still in the Midst of a Fallow Season
Fallow seasons are meant to bring life in a way it hadn’t been before.
How to Stand Up for the Value of a Woman #SheIsPriceless
Kristen Welch and I are sorta, kinda, soul sisters? As I serve on the board of directors of the ministry Kristen founded, Mercy House Global, I get to see it first hand…
If Your Faith Struggles Waiting For God to Make All Things New
There is a time for death, but there is also a time for birth. Our hearts, though heavy, need not despair.
How to know the Friendship & Love of God Even in Our Darkness
What I really needed all along, more than anything, was to see myself through His eyes.
When You Feel Too Imperfect To Be Loved
I glimpsed the joy beyond the curtain that was mine for the taking, and in that glorious, incredible moment, something in my heart shifted.
When Everyone Else is Getting Their Miracle: How to Deal with Feeling Overlooked
But faith is not measured by our ability to manipulate God to get what we want. It is measured by our willingness to submit to what He wants.
When You Don’t Have It All Together: How to Live a Flourishing Life [For the Day after Independence Day]
A flourishing human existence finds its source of power in God and is demonstrated through a life of love.
Why It Might Be a Wonderful Thing to Reach Your Breaking Point
Nothing is beyond God’s capacity, ability, or desire to redeem, restore, and reconcile.
True Story: Why You Don’t Have to Be Brave Anymore
You are able to walk Jesus strong because of who He is and what He has already done.
