October 15th is miscarriage loss day. It always brings pain to the surface, a pain that isn’t too far removed from my days. I’ve had two miscarriages, two precious children I don’t know this side of heaven. Last year God gave me another slice of peace about the process, so today I wanted to share this so that it can …
The Power of Allowing God into Our Story
Today I want to encourage each of you to share your stories. Your story is your testimony and it is powerful. It can point people to Jesus in a life-giving, world-altering way. Have you ever considered that? Have you allowed God to heal the places of brokenness, the places where life has shattered you? You have a testimony. Wonder if you have …
Collision of Logic & Imagination
I want to suck the very marrow from this life I’ve been placed here to live. I want to know I’ve walked in the destiny of a story that God alone could write. And if that leaves me shaking in my boots, it means I may have actually found my story.
I want to live beyond a logic-driven, left-brain existence, and dive into the land of what-ifs where God resides.
If You Only Knew…
As a writer I have this quirk…it might be one you have, too. My mind constantly spins with what-ifs. If my husband is late, I wonder what-ifs…and they’re rarely positive. I wonder what-if so and so wins the election. What-if such and such happens when we travel? Did you know I seriously clean the house before we leave so …
When Mother’s Day Hurts, there is Hope
That’s where I lived. But I wrestled it to the ground with God. I had to know that when I was curled up in the closet with so much pain that I didn’t know what to do, that God was there. I had to believe that He would somehow use the pain for His good. He has.
If you’re in the midst of your own pain right now (so many of my friends and loved ones are walking such hard journeys right now), know that God is there. He never leaves. He never forsakes us. Jesus endured that, so we wouldn’t have to.
So if you can’t feel Him, look up. Look out. You will find Him. And He can put your broken heart back together again.
Anticipating Changes in the Atmosphere
Do you ever get that sense that God is moving? That He is doing something that we might only have a foreshadowing of? Expectation: what is yours as it relates to God? #jesusiseverything Click To Tweet On Saturday, my husband, older two kids, and I got to participate in the Outcry Tour. A tour of worship bands leading more than …
What’s Your Story?
Once upon a time there was a girl who desperately wanted to believe she was special. Unique. Loved. She had a family that loved her, but her heart cried for something deeper. As she grew she wondered if anyone could love the parts of her that were covered with warts. The parts that revealed how far she had to grow.
Finding Your Story in Community
Community is so much more. I have learned so many truths about my story as I have risked community. The Grove was one such risk. Each of these women are among my dearest friends and confidantes, but it took a risk to ask them to join in community with me. Community are the secondary characters, the mentors, the risk takers who help make me more than I am on my own.
What does it mean to be prolife?
I’ve been pro-life basically since birth. My mom shared a story of looking in a playpen at a friend and I playing as babies, and knowing that one child was missing. You see, I was born the year after Roe v. Wade was decided. It has impacted my life through that story and the activities my parents engaged in as …
One Word: Audaciously Loved
As I start a new year, I’m wrestling with what does God want me to do, to learn, to be in this year. The message I’m getting is to accept His audacious love for me. That message is appearing from multiple places, persons, perspectives.