What are you hoping for this next year? A new job? Stronger relationships? The security of a home? What about the support of family and friends? We are all hoping for something, especially something we can count on… but at some point earthly hope will disappoint us. Jobs fall through. Homes are lost. People fail us…What then?
You Are Loved
“God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.” Augustine “God loves you.” I know, we hear that so much it skitters across our brain and bounces off. But perhaps today you and I need to listen, to really hear it with our heart. God loves you. Did you get that? God loves you. Not some …
Make Weakness Work for You
Excitement filled me as I organized my office to begin a new writing project for NaNoWriMo. Thank you, Lord! I had waited a long time to begin this project. As I hobbled between the desk and the bookcase, the medical boot I wore thumped with each half-step. Thump . . . thump . . . I made my way around to the file cabinet, …
Dare to Dream
Tomorrow I’m planning to do something crazy. Something far beyond the doldrums of my daily routine, something outside the precise corners and rigid edges of my tight to-do-list. It’s something I have wanted to do for ages, something I have prayed about and longed to do. I tried to approach it once before, but it wasn’t the right time. However, …
How to be a Better Friend
I climbed into my car after meeting with a friend, my heart a jagged, gaping wound. Everything I thought I knew about friendship collapsed. In the weeks since, God has been, bit by bit, stitching the gash closed. And with each pierce of the needle and draw of the thread, I’m learning–perhaps for the first time–the true meaning of friendship. …
It’s Ok to Be You
Recently, I attended a conference and these four words changed my life: “Be who you are.” Be who you are–not who you “should” be, not who others want you to be, but who you are at the soul level right now. It’s tough to trust that call, to muster the guts to live it out. But today, I’m committed to …