Helping you connect your faith with your real life
I wanted Rachel Hollis to be my friend. Maybe that’s not exactly right. I wanted to be more like her. Everything about her seems, well, perfect. I thought I wanted that. As I read Hollis’ books I found myself wondering what was missing. The words were great, the motivation was great, but something about it
Discover how to connect with God. There are simple ways we can make space for God in our everyday life. It doesn’t need to be complicated, it just needs to be real. I still don’t know how I can be praising God in worship on a Sunday morning and feel so far away from Him
The idea of a 4 word calling can feel anything but simple. Sometimes it seems easier to accept the idea of big, grand plans and purpose than to walk out your anything for God in small steps. Big feels like a celebration; small feels, well, small. Embracing the idea of a big calling feels like accepting a medal at
It’s easy to feel stuck in real life, even as your mind wanders to big callings. The more we whittle down the simplicity of what God calls us to, the easier it is to walk it out. As I sit here writing, there is a table full of clutter in front of me, kids playing
Our official spring cleaning may be coming to an end, but the real joy is just beginning. Now we get to move forward and live. It sounds easy in black and white, but it may feel anything but easy. Looking deep within is good for us. It’s good to see and reveal what’s been inside under an
I haven’t always loved reading the Bible. I know that sounds blasphemous, but I want to be real with you. I’ve struggled to understand the Bible, to feel like I could navigate the Bible, to even like what it said and think it mattered. Little by little, verse by verse, I’m learning to love it.
Taking a good look at our hearts and laying out everything inside is the excavation work in this spring cleaning series. It’s the digging, the revealing, the heavy lifting. And now we’re asking a question: What do I do with all that’s left? Going through my closet looks so easy as I peruse Pinterest. My feed is flooded with ideas
I like to know the right answer. I’m not talking about on tests or anything (although that does make me happy). I like to have the right answers for life. It doesn’t matter if the decision is whether to buy a house or a new flavor of ice cream. My mind starts running circles with
We finally made time for coffee. I stood in line next to my friend, smiling because it had been months since we had some time together, smiling because I had a break, smiling because it was a cold winter day and a cookie was in my very near future. It felt great. She asked what
I’m taking a short break from our Spring Cleaning for the Heart series because sometimes things feel hard and we need to remember truth. I heard myself screaming; shooting bullets of great precision with my words. Striking hard and fast over and over. My mouth wielded a weapon and it was automatic. Piercing the flesh
