All posts by: Kori Yates

Free to Show Gratitude to Friends

How We’re Learning By Kori Yates Friends in our military world are many. We have friends who are friends for a season and friends who are friends for life. We......

Happy Birthday, Planting Roots!

As we hit our four-year mark here at Planting Roots, I am in awe of what the Lord has done, not just in Planting Roots but also in me. Through......

Free to Say No

How We’re Learning by Kori Yates Say No. One of the most difficult things in my life. I am a doer by nature. I take James’ words to heart when......

Free to Breathe

How We’re Learning by Kori Yates Anxiety. Fear. They’re feelings we battle whether we like it or not. New places and faces. Sending children off to school. New jobs. New......

Small Things are Just as Big

One of my favorite quotes of all time is from Helen Keller when she said, “I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty and......

Free to Speak

How We’re Learning By Kori Yates Say Something “I don’t know enough to share Jesus.” I have heard these words many times before, even sometimes from myself. I have moments......

Free to Jump

How We’re Learning By Kori Yates Finding your heart’s desire What is that one thing that burns in your heart to do? That thing that just won’t let you go?......

Free from Guilt

How We’re Learning by Kori Yates Saved by LOVE I feel like a horrible friend. When I had a birthday, my friend remembered. She showed up at my door with......

Reaching Across the Ocean

Reaching Across the Ocean I couldn’t be there. My sister just recently walked through a very difficult time. It was a season of strange, scary, and completely unknown. With my......

Free to Rejoice

How We’re Learning By Kori Yates Celebrate Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! (Philippians 4:4) I am an optimist. In “spiritual talk,” one of my spiritual......