Category: Faith

The Restlessness Inside Me

ECC 3:11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.   I sit in the church …

An Open Letter to Cancer

You have come in like a vengeance and stolen our lives. I see you, snaking you way through  our friends and family, like the serpent in the garden, tricking Eve just when she was most vulnerable and alone. …

Confident & Amazing on the Outside- Not Enough on the Inside

Last month a friend posted an amazing reflection about the plight of women who are just too much of everything to others. Her name is Brianna, and her post can be found at her site Unveiled and Revealed …

The Hard Truth About Grace

  GRACE ɡrās/ noun simple elegance or refinement of movement. “she moved through the water with effortless grace” synonyms: elegance, poise, gracefulness, finesse (in Christian belief) the free and unmerited favor of God, as manifested in the salvation …

The Difference Between Being Silent and Being Still is Your Audience

  Being still and being silent are two different things. Being still is just exactly what God needs us to do when we aren’t listening to him. Being silent is something we may choose instead of reacting right …

Declaring Is Not Enough

When David was singing to God, he wasn’t always praying in praise. Sometimes he was distraught and angry, sending his complaints through his prayers. In Psalm 104, also known as a “Psalm of Lament”, David starts out by …

What to say when you don’t know what to say…

SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPEALIDOCIOUS…. Its what you say when you don’t know what to say! Right?! When my kids were young, they loved Mary Poppins. I too loved the classic, and learned fast that the nearly three hour movie could quickly …

Unconditional Love: Ruth

Ruth 1:16. “But Ruth replied, ‘Don’t urge me to leave you, or to turn back from you. Where you go, I will go and where you stay I will stay.Your people will be my people, and your God …

The Revolving Seasons

Ecclesiastes 3:1 “There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under the heavens.”   When the sun rises over the horizon, I can feel the promise of a new day. When the moon rises …

I Must Become Less

John 3:30 He must become greater, I must become less.   The words stung a little as I read them. I couldn’t believe this was the verse of the day. I’d heard it at least a dozen times …