Regard Your Life with Kindness

Regard Your Life with Kindness

As I was reading and rereading Psalm 22 this verse really stood out to me: For he has not ignored or belittled the suffering of the needy. He has not turned his back on them, but has listened to their cries for help. Psalm 22:24 Here I see a glimpse of who God is, of...
Loved, Tried, Ready

Loved, Tried, Ready

I was reading and re-reading the beginning of Mark lately. Sometimes passages like this, passages that tell of moments and concepts I’m so familiar with are really easy to breeze past. But this week when I read this very small section in...
Wouldn’t Change a Thing

Wouldn’t Change a Thing

The wound is where the light shines through.  – Jon Foreman Someone asked me recently “If you could go back, knowing all that you know now, and change one thing about your life what would it be.” After a brief moment of thinking and trying to...
Live the Unknowns

Live the Unknowns

Right now I’m living a lot of unknowns. That’s how it is with life isn’t it? We are surrounded daily by questions. “How?”s, “When?”s, “Why?”s, “Who?”s and “How long?”s all over the place....
It’s Not All Roses

It’s Not All Roses

Everyone experiences struggle in life. It’s a fact. In small and big ways, life isn’t all roses. Tough circumstances happen to us, we let ourselves down, and even God created us with a wide range of emotions some of which are really hard but all...
The Season of Being Real

The Season of Being Real

I’m humbled by how God’s been breaking through all the thoughts that have kept me from fully living my life for decades. It took days, weeks of soul work that will continue to be in process, but it is worth every mindful moment. Through an...