12 Days of Christmas: Day #2 Jesus is SERVANT
During the Christmas season, our homes and communities are adorned with beauty and splendor to celebrate the birth of our Savior. We seek to highlight and reflect the joy that is ours because of Jesus, and this is good. And…
12 Days of Christmas: Day #1 Jesus is ETERNAL
When we celebrate Christmas, we often focus on Jesus’ arrival on earth as a baby boy. We focus on His becoming man as a sort of a beginning of a timeline towards His ministry and His eventual death, burial, and…
Psalm 116: Return to Your Rest My Soul
Psalm 116 journaling. What a timely reminder. The psalmist says he loves the Lord because he cried out to God and He heard him. THIS is what keeps me praying. THIS is what keeps me trusting and believing. THIS is…
When Your Life(or Cake) is Falling Apart(or Staying)
Recently, I made a chocolate cake to take to a potluck gathering. This was a cake my husband had long anticipated, as we both craved chocolate cake earlier but thought it silly, as empty nesters, to make an entire cake…
Find Your Fire, Fuel Your Fire
It’s not every day you get to build a fire in the church basement. 🙂 This week, I had the opportunity to speak to a local MOPS group about finding their fire (the theme from MOPS International this year, based…
A Key To Trust
Trust. This word has been such a theme in my prayers, such a cry of my heart, of late. Do I trust God’s love for me? Do I trust God’s plan for me? Do I trust His sovereign reign? Do…
Keep Mowing the Grass; Do the Work
This summer has been a DRRRRRYYYY one here in Kansas. We seemed to jump straight from a late-ending winter (hello snowy April and oddly wet cool May) to a hot, humid July in the first week of June. The lush…
Normal to Weak
This week has found me feeling weak. If I’m honest, the past couple of weeks have found me feeling weak. No one thing has made me feel this way, but a series of heart-wrenching circumstances in my friend’s lives, weighty…
Kitchen Table Grace
My kitchen table has become a sacred place for ministry. A sacred place for grace. I didn’t set out to make this the case. In fact, years ago, I often struggled with insecurity at inviting people over…fearing my house was…
The Pursuit
This past year and a half has proved to be full of much growth and much pursuit–pursuit of knowledge, pursuit of relationship, pursuit of knowing and experiencing the character of God more fully–pursuit of holiness. It has not been a…
