On fixing my mind on Him when life is swirling Life is swirling all around me right now. Some of it loud. Some of it quiet and heavy. All of it, if I let it, threatening to steal my hope, my peace, my joy. I have walked with the Lord long enough to know how…
Lord, show me where I feel Entitled “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.” — Psalm 51:10 (NKJV) Friend, I want to begin with an honest confession. There have been seasons when I prayed with my words bowed low, but my heart was standing upright, arms folded,…
“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 kind of tired that has nothing to do with sleep. It’s the tired of a woman who has been reaching for God — straining toward Him, trying to get close enough, good enough, still enough to feel Him. She reads the verse. She prays the prayer. She waits for the nearness to…
There is a fight most of us know too well. The fight against the same weakness, again. The unbelief that creeps back in after you thought you’d dealt with it. The critical words — spoken about someone, or about yourself — that you didn’t mean to say but said anyway. The toxic posture toward a…
There is a position you already hold. Not one you are striving toward. Not one you will earn if you pray hard enough, serve long enough, get disciplined enough. A position that is already yours, right now, because of what He did — not what you do. “God raised us up with Christ and seated…
There is something quietly happening in the lives of women who have chosen to surrender. It is not loud. It does not announce itself with drama or fanfare. But it is real, and it is powerful — a slow, steady dissolving of everything that was never meant to define you. For many of us, the…
On loving God fully, loving others despite what they’ve done, and learning to love yourself well. There are seasons in life when love becomes the most complicated word in your vocabulary. Not God’s love — that, I have come to know as the one thing that has never once shifted beneath my feet. But human…
