What Freedom Really Means
The Red Sea parted and the Israelites walked away from bondage to freedom on dry ground with walls of water towering above them. Their freedom had come in shifts. First the freedom from experiencing the plagues that attacked Egypt, then the freedom from their...
Your Dream Manifesto
"Dream small or not at all." This statement arrested and accused me. I do dream small. I dream small because I'm afraid of disappointment, danger and daring to fail. But in the dreaming small I lose pieces of my heart until all that's left is a...
What You Need When You’re Hurting
There is a song by Elevation Worship that repeats in my mind and meets me in the life-overwhelms and reminds me where my strength and hope is placed. One of my children had a dental procedure and the weight of the unknown overwhelmed her and I felt overwhelmed...
Hope in Your Suffering
Senseless deaths. Wounds fester. Terrorists attack. Fingers point blame. The news channels sensationalize the bad and minimize the good and I wonder, where is hope? When life falls apart and I have no good words, what do I do? In order to know hope, I must walk...
Why it’s Important to Feel Your Feelings
My feelings roll and rage like a rushing river. At times they laughingly flow over smooth rocks and other times they tumble and roar over dangerous rapids. If I were given the option to cross a mountain divide by climbing a narrow path or floating down the...
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,...