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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 …
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. …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Loss leaves an imprint on our hearts. Deep loss changes our view of the world. Of ourselves and each other. Of God. We feel forgotten. We wonder where he was when it happened. Why didn’t he stop it? Did he see us in that awful moment when our whole world …
On a clear night under a blanket of glimmering stars… A young girl waited. Frightened and full of faith, she considered the gift she carried. It lingered in her thoughts like a dream. The Hope of the world within her awakening a courage she had never known before now. Her …
