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The Truth About Beauty

It has been said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So imagine for a moment the beholder is the one who created you. Who knit you together (Psalm 139:13). Who chose every detail carefully and purposefully to create you exactly as you are. What if he says …

To Trust and Obey

I lie still in my bed staring up at the lights dancing on my ceiling from the glowing pool outside my window.  I have questions.  Things I don’t understand.  Hope that seems misplaced somehow.  And then a familiar song from my childhood springs up in my memory.  A far off …

When Hope is Lost

I watched the scene before me. All else a background blur. A young couple with small boys was leaving the birthday party I was attending with my own two small children. The dad swung the youngest of the two boys effortlessly onto his shoulders while grabbing on securely to the …

Becoming a Truth See-er

I sit on the soft carpet with my adult daughter. Comfy pillows behind our backs and steaming cups of watermelon mint tea in our hands. A comfortable silence rests between us. And then out of that silence come the words which have been tugging at her heart for days… weeks. …

What is Faith… Really?

I recently read a post by Holley Gerth which spoke of the relation between faith and trust. She mentioned the common misconception that more faith equals more results. And it got me thinking. What is it that we are believing about faith? Are we believing that it is up to …

New Devotional!

This new devotional I am published in is now available in the regular bookstore at Proverbs 31 Ministries for $9.99! I hope you will purchase one at their website… @https://www.p31bookstore.com/products/hope-when-your-heart-is-heavy

Freedom to Heal

My teenage son is going through hard things. I’ve been watching old videos of him in his toddler years. I need connection. To remember that little boy when things were simpler between us. I want to protect him and shield him from hurt and pain. But I cannot. He has …

He is Our Certainty

My whole life I have held onto certainties to feel safe. I have been afraid of entering into relationships without guarantees because I would rather not have them at all then to know them and lose them. Living with a constant underlying expectation of loss is an exhausting venture. Believe …

Taking the Hand of Jesus

And he said to them, “Follow me…” Matthew 4:19, ESV I wanted to be her. The little girl in the picture. A sassy, blonde-headed girl in a flowered dress walking barefoot down a dirt path in the midst of wildflowers. She was looking back with a bible in her hand …

The Gift of Diversity

When I was young, my family took a trip to the White Mountains in Arizona. On this particular day, we visited a national park. I remember there being a large, paved pathway you could walk that would take you straight through. But at one point, we all strayed from that …