Restoration. When I think of that word I imagine something completely gone through and made perfect again. Like an old house restored to its original glory with no more rotted wood, flaking paint or half hung doors. In my mind it’s a process that has an end, something that gets finished. I think of completion. …
For the past few weeks, maybe a couple months, the word abide has been showing up and bouncing around in my head. What does that even mean and how does it apply to me as a Christian. I have had a hard time reconciling the tangible with the intangible. By definition, abide means to lodge…
Do you want to get well? This is the question Jesus asked the crippled Man at the pool at the sheep gate in John 5. And it’s the question He asks us all. Do you want to get well? I’m still reading The Rest of God by Mark Buchanan and he dedicates an entire chapter…
Happy New Year! I hope you enjoyed welcoming in 2020, this new decade we have entered. As I have done for the past few years, I have chosen a word rather than make a resolution. This year, I’m sensing that the Lord is calling me to a year of thankfulness, restoration and renewal. But my…
Life is hard, no doubt about it. Last time I shared what I had learned about renewal and my experience with it. This past week I have been thinking about how to abide in the Lord and what that even means. The Lord brought me to a deeper realization amid the chaos in my home….
Renewal. We often associate that word with refresh and starting again. A second chance also comes to mind. I also think of being able to breathe again after a difficult period of time circumstance. According to Miriam-Webster, that is exactly what it means. Renew means to make new again, to regenerate, to rebuild, to repeat,…
There is a huge movement in Christian circles that focuses on prosperity and ease in the Christian life. The prosperity message soothes people’s minds with the message that God wants them to have a life of ease. The prosperity message teaches that people can create a life of good health, money and material possessions with…
Life has a way of being hard and leaving us with emotional and sometimes physical scars. I don’t know about you, but at times I have felt like I’m going through trials within trials within trials. Like, I can’t get past one yet one or two more have begun. The trials are usually accompanied by…
“I can’t go on like this. This will end, right?” A few years ago, while blueberry picking on a bright sunny day, I ran into a mom who was getting a reprieve from the beginning of what would be an exhausting and frustrating journey with her 3-year-old. After hearing me say I had been on…
The statistics are staggering. Forty million adults are dealing with overwhelming anxiety in the US alone. Yet, only 36.9% are in treatment. That’s a lot of people suffering and struggling by themselves. Are you one of the diagnosed or undiagnosed sufferers of overwhelming anxiety? If you are, you know all too well the nausea, diarrhea,…