I have talked to God a lot this year about pleasing Him. I have a people-pleasing bent and He has been revealing it to me in the gentle way that He does. I sense we will be unpacking how I can please Him with my faith and fill that desire so that I don't spend exhaustive amounts of energy trying to please people when that was never my job.

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 spend so much time comparing with others that we don't take a hard look at our own lives. I know this is true for me. I can feel that emptiness when I start to compare seep in. It feels like what someone else has was stolen from me.

God I believe You and because of that I can trust You so I am going to place all my hope in You.

These are the books that once I read them, I can't quite let go so I keep them out like I'm not finished.

Our soul felt its worth.

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

God didn't choose me because of anything I can bring Him, I've got nothing He needs. He chose me because I need Him. I can rest.

Momentum for motherhood can be found in grace. I've decided to let myself take in some deep breaths of God's grace for my motherhood.

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

Planting seeds inevitably changes my feelings about rain.

Today is the beginning of Lent, which means Easter is right around the bend. Easter is my favorite holiday hands-down! I have a challenge...

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...

Less thinking and more thanking. I wrote this on my bathroom mirror. It's a safeguard for my mind this week.

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