I’ve been participating in Good Morning Girls for over one year now. I just love what they do to support us in spending time reading God’s Word each and every day. If you are in need of some support and accountability to read your Bible daily, I highly recommend joining them. This session, they are studying […]
Giving Thanks Amidst the Crowd
I hear the crowd, and the complaining of discontented hearts. I listen to the grumbling of their discouraged souls. And I wish for them, the joy that comes in giving thanks from a grateful heart. I wish for them to know the freedom that is found in the discipline of gratitude. And although there is definite disappointment in […]
For When Your Heart Aches…
Do I really dare to write the ways my heart aches—the ways I feel bare and exposed? How do I give words to the dull underlying feeling that seems to be inevitable in this life? I drive to work as the sun begins to rise, and the song plays. And its refrain undoes me. I ache at the […]
Oh How He Loves Us So {Even in our Troubled and Suffering Days}
I have my share of weary and troubled days–times where I just want to “clock out” and say I’m done. Days when the house is a mess, no one behaves, tasks aren’t getting done, and discouragement sets in like a hovering cloud. Days when every little thing irritates me and I just can’t seem to make […]
Giving Thanks to Him with Song
Music has always been so important to me. I remember being in 3rd grade, driving in the car with my mom, and learning the harmony part to This Land is Your Land. She always sang with me in the car, and it is with her, I practiced training my ear to hear harmony. As I […]
Perseverance and Grit
I admire people with perseverance and grit, and I must admit these are not some of my strongest qualities. Not because I don’t want them to be. I have many great ideas with good intentions, but when it comes to implementation I get hung up. For some reason the step between the concept and the reality […]
The Deep Roots of Friendship
We all need a friend. Someone who gets us, who is there for us, and who loves us no matter what. And those kind of friends are rare. I’ve had some difficult seasons in my life and endured them with few friends, and through those experiences I’ve learned to appreciate the qualities that help cultivate […]
For When We Surrender and Sacrifice to Remember
Today is the day, Ash Wednesday–the beginning of lent. And for the next 40 days, there are over 3,000 of us fasting together. All of us fasting for something, and from something, in an act of surrender. Fasting is a process of surrender. And it’s in the surrendering that the change comes. A surrender of what I want, what I […]
When Thanks Demands a Sacrifice
It’s late as I sit down to write this weekly gratitude post and I don’t feel like being thankful tonight. It’s been a long week, a rough day, and I’m tired. Tired of swimming upstream to give thanks. Tired of this season of life. Tired of reading perky posts where thanks is listed in a seemingly easy stream […]
Delighted by the Time Together
Delight. What is it that brings me delight? Of course our marriage we’ve worked so very hard on—one we’ve built with intention and no secrets My children and the joy they bring—even mixed with the hard work, they are a source of great pleasure to me But what brings me the most delight these days—the thing […]
