Holding life with open hands takes practice. I'll be practicing it until my last breath

What's chasing you?

What happens when we pray and things don’t go the way we planned? When the unexpected creeps in, I have a choice. I can humble my heart...

Days trick us into thinking we have more time or less time. We have to stop looking at them and look at God for our plans.

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?

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....

We read too much condemnation over ourselves in scripture, and we miss keywords like “practice”. God never asks us to be perfect.

The lines God has given are drawn out of His perfect love for me. The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup, you hold my lot; The lines...

Motherhood is not for the faint of heart. Our culture tells us that we need to maintain our selves when Jesus calls us to die to ourselves.

Give yourself a minute. Process Christmas because it's always a mixture of beautiful and hard, lovely and hustle. We don't let ourselves...

Waiting creates space. It creates stillness. Outside things stop, lesser things are pushed aside. We can either fill this space in our...

We may not have said this, but we have thought it at some point. As we age, we have been disappointed enough that we want to guard...

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...

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