Sep 10, 2025 | art & faith, care for your soul, encouragement
“How long, O Lord?” We just can’t avoid it: the cost of living will bring heartache, pain, tears and mourning. Whether you’ve faced loss of loved ones, a broken friendship or dream, perhaps betrayal, or you’ve experienced the death of a soul...
Jul 17, 2025 | care for your soul, encouragement, hope
“You of little faith, why did you doubt?” There’s a certain hush that comes over us when life turns uncertain—when the place where we once stood firm suddenly feels as if it’s shifting beneath our feet. Perhaps you know that feeling, too.“You of little faith, why did...
May 7, 2025 | art & faith, encouragement
I never expected clay to teach me how to live. But these days, as my hands sink into wet mud at the wheel, I can feel God’s hands on me too—pressing, guiding, reshaping. It wasn’t always this way. For years, I lived in graphics, words, and deadlines. I was a corporate...
Jan 13, 2025 | care for your soul, encouragement
Some Mondays arrive quietly. Others feel like they show up with a list of impossible demands— calling for a radical faith when you’re already worn thin, or a radical hope when your heart feels heavy. Some Mondays invite you to pour out radical love without much...
Nov 22, 2021 | encouragement
The country night air held a chill. The onyx sky and surroundings clutched tight to the emotions of the seventeen women who ambled into the cold room on a Friday night, their metaphorical backpacks lugging heavier loads than each should haul. That snapshot set the...
Sep 28, 2021 | care for your soul, encouragement
It’s late September in southwest Michigan, and almost harvest time in the vineyard that hugs my backyard. It’s this time of year that the moist evenings hold the perfume of sweet, ripe grapes close to the earth. I often wonder if it’s heaven pushing this...
