Mar 28, 2015 | encouragement
I knelt beside the tired mama, helpless to bring relief as her eyes searched the room, searched the heavens, for relief. There was none. Pain had washed over every part of her physical being. We prayed, cried out: Lord relief, bring relief. Body tense, the internal...
Dec 31, 2014 | encouragement
Leading into each new year, I ask God to prepare me for what’s ahead at the close of the last, and He faithfully provides me a word, a theme, and most often a verse from which it emerged. Sometimes His response surprised, and others left me trepidatious. This...
May 14, 2014 | encouragement
Are you doing okay with who you are, where you are…or do you wish for more? I love the obvious but relevant quote found in Dallas Willard’s book Divine Conspiracy. Willard said, “…not going to London or Atlanta is a poor plan for going to New York.” That’s pretty...
Nov 3, 2013 | encouragement
everything. Everything you’ve done. Everything that has been done to you… with you… for you… against you… has a purpose. God has a plan for you. Tap into the Source who will redeem it all. God is for...
Aug 9, 2013 | encouragement
It was all a supposition. An uncertainty, a possibility. As if he hadn’t been sent into the storm. As if he was certain the voice was familiar. As if the risk was worth the fear. He got out of the boat. On the heals of depletion, marked by exhaustion, Jesus [his...
Mar 9, 2013 | encouragement
Why is it that the distance of God can be more comfortable than His presence sometimes? That underneath it all, sometimes that grace-thing is a little hard to swallow? When the wounds of the world expose a God that does not come through as we planned and the grace in...
