I got my feels wound up. I released the frustration and hurt through the keyboard. By the second draft in, I had a better understanding of what I almost got tangled in. What started as part of the social noise became an opportunity to breathe peace. Have Your Feels Ever Taken the Wheel? My feels…
Please stop. Stop using Jesus as an excuse to justify feelings. Stop using Bible memes to empower your actions. Stop using Scripture as the guide for emotional responses. JUST STOP. Maybe it’s all the news coming out. Maybe it’s the extra cup of coffee I had earlier. Maybe it’s the fact that some people are…
You are not listening. But you are not listening. Or most of us anyway. I’m trying. I really am. I want to hear – new ideas, new experiences, new revelations. But the more you SHOUT at me, the harder it is to hear you. I want to engage. But you turn off the one line…
I don’t try to be confrontational. . . Okay, you can stop laughing now. When I was younger, I craved the arguments and confrontation. I embraced the opportunity to prove others wrong – and the higher their authority, the better for me. And then God. I began leaning into God’s Word and I began trusting…
Do you ever wonder if God is real? Or is that just me? When you pray and you study and you rinse and repeat until you feel like it’s all you are doing … But it all stays the same. Seeing God At Work Yesterday, I had to adjust my plans to get everyone where…
You can’t just trust Jesus. You have to do something. Even the Bible says that only someone who works gets fed. Of course, the Bible also says, “Judas hanged himself” “go and do likewise.” (Okay, those two phrases aren’t located together, although they are in Scripture, and they come from a joke my dad loved…
That’s right …. how bold can you go? And it’s okay to sing it because now I can’t stop. It turns out that when you embrace the truth of your design, it’s an empowering truth that sparks a hunger to go even bolder. Your One Purpose You are designed for one purpose … Just one…
Choosing joy for the journey is an attitude of the heart, not a determination of the circumstances. Just ask my husband. The other day, my husband and I got stuck in traffic. I pointed out the rainbow crossing the sky. And then I started singing I Can See Clearly Now. I was finding my way…
Have you ever found God leading you into a storm instead of around it? Morning Reflection I sit in the parking lot after dropping my husband off and do a morning reflection. I had started my morning thinking about how I could get more eyes on what I shared. I paused. Breathed. And remembered the…
They painted the perfect picture of settled calm. He pushed the baby stroller. She picked blooms from the plants. And I felt the nudge to splash cold water on them. Not actual water. That would be rude. But maybe my WORD interruption was just as rude. Do you ever share random knowledge with people who…