Whatever you may feel is closing in on you, whatever is surrounding you today, stop looking for it and look for God. Stop focusing on what's in front of you and focus on Who is with you.

Ever feel like your heart is being pulled in different directions. So many things tug at my heart and demand attention. I give pieces of my heart away to anxious thoughts and lesser things all the time. My heart becomes unintentionally divided. Pulled in different directions, I don't move forward.

We can easily take our freedom for granted. Both our physical freedom in this country and our spiritual freedom cost a high price. Remember the opportunities both of these freedoms present. Don't let apathy keep you in the dark.

Pouring our actually makes space for God to fill me with something better... Him.

"If we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit."

Slow the tide of the Christmas season that threatens to drown you in holiday cheer!

I like to fix. I usually believe that I know the answers. I need to trust God more than I trust myself.

Peace is a gift but we must struggle to hold onto it. Circumstances try to wrestle it from us.

What's chasing you?

I feel like time is breathing down my neck and etching "I was here", on my face. I need rapid wrinkle repair. Okay that sentence is fun...

What are you writing on your heart? What do you repeat to yourself until it's engraved there? Is it guilt or shame?

Lately my thoughts have been "in the weeds". There is too much going on in there, and it isn't just anxiety or agendas.

Eleanor Roosevelt prayed this prayer nightly. I love it. I am going to steal it for the next ten days and I'm inviting you to join me....

Expectations. We want to put our hope fully into things, but experience has taught us that we will often be disappointed.