Three Ways to Achieve Victory
We all want to be winners. We're hard wired to survive and scramble for top position. For some, winning comes easy and for others it never comes. Victory. I told myself it wasn't that important. If there's a drawing to win, I won't. If teams are chosen, I'm...
The Most Powerful Weapon
I'm sharing a post that I wrote for The Family Roadmap on the power of words and the lingering effect they have on our lives. The following is an excerpt and you can read the rest at The Family Roadmap. We can de-construct growth in someone’s heart with...
Why You Don’t Need to Fear the Desert
Because he is the wonder-doing God, he can turn the desert into streams, barrenness into beauty, and he can make a way of hope through our pain. We only need to be still. Deserts make me nervous because I can feel so lost and lonely. I search this...
The End of the Beginning
It is finished--at least the beginning. With Christ's death and resurrection the beginning has ended and the eternal journey begins. It is finished! No more wondering if we're enough, because we are. No more questioning whether Christ really is...
An Honest Surrender
Andrew Murray: "A soul cannot seek close fellowship with God, or attain the abiding consciousness of waiting on him all the day without a very honest and entire surrender to all his will." It's the "very honest" that grips me. It's one thing to be...
So You Want to Run but Don’t Know How
I don't run. Except to coffee shops. And anyone who has dark chocolate. But running clothes are cute. So then, maybe, I should run. Just so I can look cute. Nah. But I do run towards Christ because I'm on a pilgrimage. It's a...
Journeys, strength, and hope
We live a Pilgrims' Progress kind of life. Our paths take us through valleys and mountaintops. We linger in Vanity Fair. We dance with Ignorance. We battle Giants. We wrestle Pride. All the while we march ever onward,...
When the Hard is Hard and the Grace You Need
What do you do when the hard is hard? Do you hide? Do you immerse yourself in all things chocolate and a good book that takes you to places long-gone? Do you find yourself paralyzed by the what ifs? Do you stare it in the eye and wrestle it to the ground?...
The Giver and the Gift of Grace
The Giver of light gave me the gift of flickering light after a long season of darkness. Hope flashed briefly in the darkest of soul night where I had wandered searching his word, playing God-music, fellowshipping with the body of Christ, praying and waiting for...
Being Brave for the Journey
God may be calling you to a new journey or you may be in the middle of a journey and you've lost your mojo. You want to turn back, but you've come too far and experienced too many changes. I understand. I urge you to keep going, and to take that next step...
The Secret to Rest and Hiding in Him
“You are my hiding place, you will protect me from trouble, you surround me with songs of deliverance.” Psalm 32:7 My everyday life is not calm, quiet, or still. It’s messy and noisy and involves many people. In my everyday life I'm a tired worn out mess. In my...
Four Great Benefits to Waiting on God and a Favor
Hello friends. I'm glad you're here. It's been a bit busier than normal around here. I've been immersing myself in a community theatre production and I'm learning all things lyrics, lines, and steps that will soon be forgotten, but underneath the surface God has...