The Opposite of Crushing   It was powerful. It was raw. And it ‘bout knocked me off my chair. Right there in the conference hall, I watched their stories unfold......

What We All Need to Hear Have you ever walked through a season that was just harder than you ever felt prepared to handle? Feeling lost in the muck and......

Learning to Lean “What is your occupation?” she asked. This seemingly innocent and sterile question echoed around the chambers of my heart as I struggled to pin the answer down.......

Who We Are   Forgiven. This. This gift. This declaration. This Truth about who we are and what has been laid upon our brokenness and shame is the most life-altering......

  Backwards Math   Wanna know what the secret to joy in the Christian life is? Every year, countless sermons, devotionals, and blogs dole out steps to inching closer to......

A Deliberate Choice   Just the other day, as I drove down the familiar road towards home, a song came on the radio. I hadn’t heard it before. The melody......

A Hard-Won Truth   I like order. Ask my family or anyone who knows me well. It’s true. Fact is, I work pretty hard to create order – to make......

Asking   Just when I think I’ve seen a miracle, that there just couldn’t be something more wonderful or more faithful or more merciful…there it is. And just when I......

The Sound of Surviving There’s a picture in my mind that just doesn’t match up with the life I find myself living. This picture resembles a movie clip from Wonder......

A Momma Story (with a redemptive ending)   ***What you are about to read is a recap of a day that unfolded several years ago. My kids were really little,......