When the COVID crisis began last Spring, my husband and I were expecting our first child. Dreams for that glorious day when we would meet our little girl were dashed when we learned of hospital restrictions, airline cancellations, and lockdown procedures. My husband and I were getting a taste of parenthood during a pandemic. Just…
Have you ever felt stuck in life? A dream job on hold. A relationship strained. A plateau in your goals. Or it might be financial burdens, chronic illness, or watching a loved one make poor choices. In Acts 27, the apostle Paul is taken prisoner for sharing the gospel and placed on a boat bound…
A garden of many thorns can be a beautiful thing. So often we focus on the ugliness of a thorn or the pain it causes, but have you ever noticed that thorns are found in a sea of beautiful things? You won’t find a thorn on dead things. I want to encourage you with this…
Contentment sometimes seems negative because we want to visually interchange it with complacency. But the word is simply gratification. In fact, contrary to being complacent, I wonder if it’s possible that being content is actually what moves us forward. After three summers of stubbornly braving the southern humid heat while sitting in hours of standstill…
My heart had been coveting a friend’s marriage and how wonderful it would be to have such a life. And in that very moment, my Abba Father chased me down with His merciful love. I was prompted to open up His word. It landed on 1 Corinthians 7. It was as if God had lifted…
George Matheson of Scotland echoes the discipline of his personal despair in his discipline of his personal despair in his book Thoughts for Life’s Journey when he book Thoughts for Life’s Journey when he writes: My soul, reject not the place of thy writes: My soul, reject not the place of thy prostration! It has…