Keeping My Heart Open
“Jesus, keep me open. May my heart stay available.” That’s been my prayer for years, but even more so recently as I’m learning to juggle…
Category: Encouragement
Changing our Perspective on Faith
Last year, I bought a bonsai tree. Bonsai trees are trees or shrub grown in a pot and artificially prevented from reaching its normal size. Just searc…
Finding Water
What does it look like for us to store water in our internal worlds? Water that we can draw on when we are emotionally, mentally, relationally dry? Wh…
Allowing Our Hearts To Break
As I sat down to write this week’s encouragement for our newsletter, the news of the school shooting in Texas came through. Like each of…
Dreaming with God
When the Lord asked me this question, He circumvented a stronghold in my soul, this belief that I have to provide for myself, and that I am incapable …
I Forgot How to Breathe
Last week, when I was in Puerto Rico, I had an opportunity go spear fishing. Spear fishing is where you free dive with just a snorkel on and your sp…
Walking in Kingdom Generosity
When the Lord invites us to learn to walk in His heart of generosity, it is both exhilarating and terrifying. Exhilarating because the Lord invites us…
Co-Creating with God
especially I’ve noticed myself stopping in my tracks to take it all in—how the grass blows in the wind or the intricacies of each flower and bloom…
Didn’t Our Hearts Burn?
I forever will be enthralled with the story of the disciples on the Road to Emmaus in Luke 24. It still makes me choke up when I read it.
Delight Yourself in the Lord
When I looked at the word “delight” in this verse, its meaning goes far deeper than just being happy or joyful. The Hebrew word used is “anag,…