The Right Direction For Hope “Don’t get your hopes up.” I’ve heard the warning, felt the pessimism creep into the cracks. There’s a good chance you have, at one point......

Impacting Eternity -Written by Missy Wainman Guest Writer and Planting Roots Worship Team Member I attended a homeschool convention this winter with some friends of mine. This is our 5th......

Cracks and Grace Brokenness is part of the puzzle. It’s part of this flesh package. And each broken piece, in the hands of our loving Savior, has the power to......

Holy Courage Well…now I know. In my life, what I give permission to can be the very thing that holds me captive. Recently, a person I trusted and cared for......

Restoring Wonder I know. I’m bordering on broken-record-ness. God is good. Repeat. Repeat again. What more can I say, really? Well…I don’t know about you, but I am a forgetful,......

Liberation Don’t you ever get tired of, well…yourself? I do. I am. Sometimes as the weight and weary press against my nerves and my heart beats heavy with the mantle......

A Growing Clarity Something I am pierced by these days is the growing clarity that much of my life has been poured out for the wrong things. My alabaster jar......

Wonder Standing in awe, captured by the light, by the glory, by the awesomeness of God. I look to the heavens, to the mountains, to the bursting color of spring......

Dying Well “I used to live my life with the goal of ‘living well,’” He said. I leaned in, anticipating the “but” I sensed was coming. “But now,” he continued,......

Even If You Don’t   How can you sing the lyric, “It is well with my soul,” when the answer is long in coming? Or perhaps when the answer is......