There’s nothing that grinds my gears more than feeling like I can’t comprehend something. It hits directly at my deep-rooted control issues. As long as I can understand something, I feel like I…

What you do in private, matters. Whether that’s behind closed doors or in the quietness of your own mind. That thing that no one else knows about doesn’t affect just you.  The core…

Some of the most profound seasons of transformation in my life began with moments of complete surrender when I exchanged prayers for my will to be done for prayers that His will would…

Are you aware of the weeds taking root in your life? On my early walk this morning, something familiar caught my eye in a new way. As I moved down the sidewalk, I…

I recently read The Familiar Stranger by Tyler Staton. Through his gifts of storytelling and expository teaching, I felt as though I was meeting the person of the Holy Spirit in a deeper,…

“If you live for people’s acceptance, you will die from their rejection.” – Lecrae Friends, nothing will crush your soul quite like living under the weight of people-pleasing. You can be kind and…

Cravings. If we’re not properly equipped to handle them, they can wreak havoc on our willpower and cause us to succumb to deadly temptation all too quickly.  More often than not, cravings grow…

Have you trained your soul to search for glimmers of gratitude, even on the murkiest of days? At the beginning of our marriage, my husband and I started a nightly tradition that has…

I echoed Paul’s lament over the challenges of Christian living more times than I’d like to admit this past week as I found myself doing “the very thing I hate” instead of “what…

If a potted plant ends up in my home, it better have hospice on speed dial. Keeping those things alive is a real struggle for me. While I was watering one a student…