Two good friends sat across our living room, having just asked how they could pray for me. “I want to be a deeper person.” In typical external processing fashion, words of explanation tumbled out: I crave simplicity of passion, sweeter…
chronic pain: exchanging my brokenness for God’s wholeness
There is something about suffering. For those of you who read this not near me on a daily basis, a little context: for 2+ years, I experienced constant pain in my neck. What began as a (surprising) pinched nerve after…
releasing more of me to receive more of God
I need a daily intervention for this reality: choosing Jesus means you live entirely for Someone else. Choosing Jesus changes the game from “you’re the best, you can do this!” to “God is the best. You can’t, but He can.”…
a godly woman’s strength is hope in her God
The deepest root of a Christian woman is hope in God, and it yields this strong tree of fearlessness in the face of suffering. Do you remember my favorite verse in the Proverbs 31 woman chapter? Proverbs 31:25: Strength and dignity are her…
the practice of internal wonder
Internal stillness takes practice. It is the fruit of hiddenness — a life that’s lived looking at God, a life of wonder in Him — and it needs to be cultivated. Sara Hagerty, Unseen Do you ever feel tempted to…
trusting God to be God
Do you ever wear a garment of worry over loved ones and their decisions? Have you ever found yourself carrying burdens of someone else’s life that aren’t yours to carry? Do you tend to live anxious about someone else’s opinion…
younger me, don’t live so afraid.
Lately, I’ve had reason to look back into my middle and high school years and self. And those are the words that come to mind: Girl, don’t be so afraid. This past weekend we celebrated my only niece’s 13th birthday…
thoughts from a sick day
I write this post from my couch. Where I’ve been sitting for the past 8 hours. Surrounded by books, pillows and blankets, a tea mug, a water glass, and tissues. Yes, I have a cold, with a fever attached. Although…
experiencing God in everything
Loving God with all our mind means that our thinking is wholly engaged to do all it can to awaken and express the heartfelt fullness of treasuring God above all things. John Piper It’s amazing how uncluttered and settled my…
making choices like Jesus would
Thanksgiving week this year was full. Full of family, laughter, conversations, shooting guns, being outside, delicious food, a few tears, lots of grace. I was driving out to my parents’ house asking Father for help. God, please give me wisdom…
for me, Christ must be everything
This statement is one that has been more true of my life than ever before in my relationship with God. Not because I’ve finally arrived at some grand achievement of spirituality, but because I am at a place where I…
words: his grace in scripture
“Since God’s love for us is the soil in which love for God grows, identifying his grace in all the Scriptures is not simply an interpretive scheme. It is supremely practical. For regular exaltation of the gospel is what ignites…