May God Lead You
May God lead you as you let go May He fill your empty hands with new hope And may you lean into Him.
When You Long for Comfort
May the Lord go before you and make your steps firm, May he fill you with peace as you walk journeys unknown, May his presence be your greatest source of comfort, And may he always and forever be your heart's focus.
God’s Favor
May you walk in faithfulness, May God's favor rest upon you, May you know that God sees you, hears you, and loves you.
When You Need Strength to Let Go
The Blessing May God give you strength to let go, May He blow across your dreams, bringing them to life in His way and time, And may He fill your heart with the depths of how much He loves you.
Hard Seasons of Life and How to Navigate Them
Hard Seasons In hard seasons, do you ever feel like negative thoughts spiral downward and it feels impossible to make your way back up again? Sometimes it seems like things are going great and then they take a hundred-eighty degree turn sideways and you're left...
Do Scars Have Purpose
Scars have purpose. . . They really do. Scars remind us of where we've been and of God's faithfulness. They are gifts of proof that God redeems our struggles, despair, and pain. We are in the week after the greatest miracle that ever happened--Jesus' resurrection. He...
When Resolve Feels Weak
New Beginnings and Falling Resolve It’s hard to think about new beginnings when winter grips my world. It is cold. The trees, bushes, and flowers lie dormant. It doesn’t look “new”. Things look old, drab, brown. The weather is not friendly. The sun hides. I hide from...
When You Feel Defeated
Do you ever feel like you've lost before you've even begun? Sometimes we feel defeated before the battle has even begun because the challenge is too great; the heartache is too unbearable; and the personal cost is too much. Courage feels thin. Hearts quake and knees...
Do You Need to Hear Good News?
Trust Building Verses: Overcome Anxiety by Hearing the Word of God When I hear the news, I've noticed my mind runs in anxious circles over what's happening in our world. But God pulls me into a hard stop and says, "Listen." So, I have been and this what...
Trusting in the Name of the Lord
The Lord is our hiding place and he is our strength in times of trouble. But how do we move from struggle to rest? How do we move from anxiety to peace? How does our trust grow when we can't seem to see God in our circumstances? I came across Psalm 9:9-10 and knew I...
A Prayer for Praise
Sometimes our Christian growth gets marked by starts and stops; wet seasons and dry seasons; valleys and deserts; gentle rains and torrential down pours. Some years we grow by leaps and bounds and other years we take a couple or three steps backward. But God is...
How to Be Strong When You Feel Weak
Falling Up? I fell up the stairs the other day (again). I promise I've walked those stairs numerous times and haven't fallen down them (yet). But going up them? That's another story. Falling forward is something I'm pretty familiar with. My toe hits the step...