We have twenty-four hours in a day... that’s it. We never get twenty-five. Sixty minutes in every hour of our lives. No matter how hard...

I always feel like I need to figure things out. My brain rarely stops calculating and planning. I waste so much energy trying to...

Summer is fading and I’m desperate to make her last. My Enneagram one self, even though I try not to show her that much in public, feels...

I pray that you will make me fit for what you are calling me to do. That's what I wrote, but that's not what the verse said. It actually...

Expectations, this is the time of year when we start to see that things aren’t panning out the way we hoped! Those New Year’s resolutions...

Faithful, it's not flashy or trendy. Faithfulness may seem mundane, but it always adds up. Repetition brings results.

Mary was chosen by God because of her belief. She believed even when she didn't have all the details.

What are you doing because it's expected? How are you letting culture push you around and tell you that valuable means loud and obvious?

It’s not the pandemic; it’s the dishes. I don’t mean in any way to minimalize the suffering the pandemic has caused. Stick with me. In...

Pray helps when desperately need perspective. I can get severe tunnel vision. When I start to fixate on things, prayer moves me forward.

When we expect an outcome, we sometimes hear what we want to hear. The disciples had an entirely different end in mind.

You know when you read a really familiar passage of scripture and see something you’ve seen a hundred times, but a new word jumps out at...

Love, it’s the hardest command that masquerades as something that should come naturally. Why is loving people so hard? The problem with...

I seem to always measure my day in tangible things I got done, but that's not how God measures my day.

I’ve been thinking about hope since before we started Advent traditions. This first week of advent focuses on hope, we lit the hope...

“There’s not much hope for a person who won’t live in the grace he’s given.”

... but my flowers aren't really rattled. they don't seem to understand what is going on, or maybe they actually remember who is in charge

I did. I said ‘slow it down” because I know that if we don’t learn what we need to learn in 2020, then we’re not really moving on in 2021.

It’s time to water our faith. At this moment, 2020 feels long, waiting seems forever. I need to water my faith with expectation.

If time never passed, I wouldn’t notice things. Time carries with it the gift of appreciation.