What if God is forming you, not grading you? There is a voice many women know intimately. It tells us we should be doing more. Praying more. Growing faster. Being more patient, more gracious, more disciplined, more spiritual. And when we fall short, that same voice is quick to remind us. For years, we may…
Learning to release what was never ours to carry. There is a kind of tiredness that sleep cannot fix. It is the exhaustion of the woman who feels responsible for everything. The woman who anticipates everyone’s needs, worries about the people she loves and lies awake trying to find solutions to problems she cannot control….
Learning to live in the freedom of being deeply loved. “His love broke open the way, and he brought me into a beautiful, broad place. He rescued me—because his delight is in me!” — Psalm 18:19 (TPT) I’ve been sitting with this Scripture, particularly those words: A beautiful, broad place. And I’ve been wondering what…
The freedom of letting God be Lord “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” — 2 Corinthians 3:17 Lord, I think I am beginning to understand that surrender is not something I do once. It is something I return to. Again and again. Because if…
“As the time approached for Him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem.”— Luke 9:51 NIV There is something about that word resolutely that keeps drawing me back. Jesus knew what lay ahead. Jerusalem wasn’t the easy road. It was the road of surrender, suffering and ultimately the cross. And…
A reminder for when the field still looks empty. My dear friend, Harvest is coming. I know there are days when you wonder whether some of the seeds you have sown will ever become anything you can see. Seeds of prayer.Seeds of obedience.Seeds of forgiveness.Seeds of showing up when you would rather have withdrawn.Seeds of…
“The Lord will always guide you; He will satisfy your soul in dry places and strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.” — Isaiah 58:11 There is a picture God paints throughout Scripture that has captivated my heart. Not of a woman who is striving….
There is a stillness God has been inviting me into. Not the stillness of having nothing to carry. I still carry my children. I still carry decisions, seasons, unanswered things. But underneath the carrying, He has been asking me to lay down the striving. To stop working so hard to hold what was never mine…
There is a difference between being used by God and being trusted by Him. Anyone can be used. Power shows up in strange places, in unlikely hands, for a moment, for a season, for a purpose bigger than the person carrying it. But trust is different. Trust is not given for a moment — it’s…
A word for the woman carrying guilt and shame into rooms she was meant to walk freely in. There is a particular weight that some women carry so quietly that no one around them would ever know. It doesn’t announce itself loudly. It settles — in the way she holds back in conversation, in the…
