Tag: christianity
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Strength Beyond My Limits
Lately, my life feels like a jumbled heap of iPhone to-do Notes, laundry piles, Zoom links, and ungraded essays. The back-to-school season is always a whirlwind, but this year it feels like the volume is turned all the way up. I am a single working mom. My calendar is booked with online classes to prep,…
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Anchored
The Freedom of Becoming Who God Made Us to Be So often, as humans, we tend to be blown about by every wind. We live in a world that reminds us daily that we must achieve more—more success, more popularity, more status, more influence. We are inundated with images of curated perfection and often quietly…
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A Grateful Heart
When God is working on our hearts, he will crack them open. This process of refinement is painful. It involves loss–the death of our own desires–and a willingness to follow Him even when he is leading us away from everything we thought we wanted. Our hearts can’t crack open unless they break. But inside such…
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You Are Loved.
This post isn’t for everyone—but maybe it’s for you. I wrote this for anyone who feels far from God. For anyone carrying a quiet ache, regret, or shame. For anyone who has silently wondered, “Is it too late for me?” If that’s you—read on. There’s a love bigger than your failure, and a freedom deeper…
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Abiding Joy
Perhaps the most profound joy we can experience comes in the midst of our deepest pain. Only then are we truly able to surrender—our expectations, our dreams, our longing for control—as we free fall into the grace of God. Let us thank Him for being a good Father. For wanting good things for His children.Let…
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How Can We Know God Is Real?
If you’re grappling with this question, I want to say upfront: it’s not my aim to convince you through a theological treatise or scientific argument that God exists. I cannot use the powers of rhetoric at my disposal to force belief. I’ve observed that many people resist belief in God not because of evidence, but…
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There’s Something More
Have you ever noticed that gold sparkles in the light but it’s cold in your hands? Have you filled your cup, thinking it would feel like enough, but it doesn’t last? You could have it all, you could have the whole world at your feet—every little thing you think you need, and still feel empty.…
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Daring to be Different
In my sophomore year of high school, at a time in my life when I was finding my emerging identity as a young adult, I ventured to a grassy hill at the front of the campus to a Bible study a friend had invited me to attend. I awkwardly sat down on the grass amid…
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No Mission Too Small
When I was in my late teens, my visions of the future were extravagant but worldly. I imagined that fame and fortune would lead to fulfillment. Perfection also played a role: I pictured a neatly ordered future that would unfurl with the synchrony of well-aligned dominoes falling one after another. Beauty, romance, wealth, good health,…
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Hedges.
Recently, I have been thinking a lot about hedges. Being that I am not horticulturally gifted, much less one to take up hedge clippers, thinking about such things is not typical for me! It all started a couple of weeks ago when I was reading through the book of Isaiah, and I came across a…
The Still Small Voice 