We make confession into a bully when he's really our friend.

I’ve been thinking about hope since before we started Advent traditions. This first week of advent focuses on hope, we lit the hope candle and talked about the difference between wishes and hopes, but my heart felt stagnant. This year hit us early in the spring like a late frost wilting some of my blooming hopes. It left them sagging off the branches and pitiful. With the death of those hopes, I’ve been able to see my misplaced trust. Those things I lost, they don’t matter in

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

My last blog promised practical ways to get God's word in your life and family... This is it! I love the translation of this charge in...

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.

It is our job to teach them that there is a Right and a Wrong and then lead them where to go when it gets grey.

I challenge you this summer not just to put these verses up for your children to learn, but do this with them and let it in your soul too

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

Nature is waking up all around us. God’s timing this perfectly. Promise is coming, it’s undetected yet, but it’s coming. Just like...

We get to choose what we will do with it. Even though it seems like everything is beyond our control right now, it isn't. We have time.

I think God has a growth chart wall just like the one I have for my children. I’m pretty sure His isn’t located in the kitchen like mine.

I’m learning that I can’t rely on my own feelings for love. Feelings are far too fickle and fragile things to depend on

I’ve started really examining my thoughts. I am actually in charge of what gets to stay in my heart and mind. I don’t have to own every thou

I am not an expert at anything but needing God, and needing God has taught me prayer.

I want to correct my vision to 2020 for this next year. I’m collecting verses to help my astigmatisms, places I’ve grown fuzzy in 2019.

Time can chisel away at hope. There are days that it has toppled mine. Forgetting does a number on us. Waiting can be long and silent

I’m seeing thankFULLNESS differently... emphasis on the fullness. I get so caught up in the filling of things that I forget it isn't my job

Can I tell you something? I struggle with failure. I find myself often helping Satan put myself back on the hook where Jesus took me down.

I think our stress level is a good indicator of wear we are placing our trust. And now let’s say a collective “OUCH”, me included.