Can’t you just be still? It’s a question every parent asks their child at least once, and of course the answer is no. But it’s a question I think God asks of us over and over and over. Be still and know that I am God. (Psalm 46:10) Busy is an evil dictator. We hit the ground running at early o’clock in the morning. Then all ...

Joy can be a tricky thing. Elusive. There one minute and gone the next. It feels as slippery as a bar of soap in the shower. If circumstances and kids and hormones all line up together, then we can grasp it. But we all know those rarely line up. In some seasons, joy is easier than others. It’s smooth in the summer when the ...

Do you feel invisible? Forgotten? Like an airplane in a holding pattern, flying around and around an airport, waiting for its turn to land? It’s moving but it’s not really going anywhere. Do you have God dreams in your heart you can’t wait to accomplish and yet nothing is happening? Is everyone else around you “living the dream” but there you sit, living day-to-day life ...

I slept fitfully off and on all night. At 3:30 am I woke up in a panic from a dream I was having. I finally got back to sleep, only to wake up again at 6:30 am. Ugh! I could have slept in. It was Saturday, and I didn’t have to get up and out the door early for once. I ...

Seven deaths. Seven deaths in two weeks. My husband and I are pastors, and in the last two weeks alone, we’ve experienced seven deaths around us. Five church members and two in the lives of friends. That’s a lot of funerals. That’s a lot of sadness. Even for an emotionally and spiritually strong person, that’s a hard pill to swallow. Performing ...

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