This has always driven me crazy: having fall and Christmas décor up at the same time. In previous years, I would have bent over backwards to get Christmas up and fall put away – dedicating an entire weekend to it, just to check the box off of my to-do list…

I am convinced, as of late, that if you want to come in contact with the Holy Spirit, go hang out in the vitamin aisle of Walmart.  He’s right there, between all our man-made ways of sustaining our health, waiting.  Ever find yourself in a conversation and feel like you…

“Have you asked him for forgiveness?” I could feel the indignation, the self-righteous anger rising within me as I read the message. Me, ask him for forgiveness? I was the injured party! I wanted to scream and throw the phone across the room. Didn’t she know? Yet…  Yet, there was…

“Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.” (James 1:2-4) Consider it pure joy? I’ve really…

There’s this moment in the wilderness where the Israelites are on the cusp of taking the Promised Land (Numbers 13).  Moses has sent out 12 spies, and they have come back from scouting out the land and confirmed that the land is flowing with milk and honey.  They’ve even brought…

“I made the sand a boundary for the sea, an everlasting barrier it cannot cross. The waves may roll, but they cannot prevail; they may roar, but they cannot cross it.” (Jeremiah 5:22 NIV) I was talking to a friend yesterday, she’s getting ready to turn 93. She has been…

  There are messages in the details of our lives. Now that’s a statement. This is a story that has been marinating on my heart for a couple of months now. A friend read something I had written for church this morning and told me “THIS is within your control”…

I identify greatly with King David in this season of my life….how he goes from being a “man after God’s own heart” to being a disobedient wretch and back again. This cycle seems to happen with him over and over again throughout his life. Just read through the Psalms. Most…