The First Empty Nest
Parenting is a series of letting go, a series of trusting God with the children he has given us.
When Resolutions Seem Daunting
Setting up new goals and resolutions for myself sounds daunting. Instead, I’m focusing on the simple everyday faithfulness that God desires me to have.
Raising A Family Far From Home
As longings for family press in, we can find measures of joy in trusting that God has us exactly where he wants us to be. We look to Christ for our satisfaction instead of to the perfect family arrangement.
When God Changes Your Plans
Parenting is a series of of sacrifices, of laying down our rights for the good of our children. My mornings of solitude are being replaced with history and Latin and math lessons. But it will be a sacrifice worth making.
The Cure For Bitterness
The cure for bitterness is not found in getting even, but by giving grace.
How To Embrace Your Dispensability
Oftentimes, we’re tempted to think things will fall apart if we’re removed from the equation. We’re afraid to give up control and trust that someone else can finish the task just as well, if not better, than we can. Pride says, everything will fall apart if I’m not involved. Humility says, things may even start to run better without me.
Your Resolutions Flew Out The Window
In the midst of faltering resolutions, refresh your heart and mind with these four truths…
Depressed And Thankful: 6 Ways To Find Joy
If you are wandering down the dark path of depression and despair, here are six ways to fight for joy through gratefulness…
If He Calls You, He Will Equip You
If you’re in a place of insecurity, wondering how to handle a challenging task, remember three things.
Will I Ever Be Good Enough
Our hope does not lie in ourselves or our performance. We cannot gain God’s blessing through obeying his commands, and we can’t do enough good deeds to earn forgiveness for even the smallest sin. As mothers, we can be tempted to find our righteousness in giving our children the picture-perfect childhood, filled with super-food meals and the best education possible. Somehow we falsely believe that if we can be the ideal Proverbs 31 wife and mother, we will earn favor with God. Yet our hope is solely in what Christ has already done, what he accomplished for us on the cross.
God Loves Ministry No One Else Sees
God rejoices in sea creatures and rare flowers that no one but him will ever see. He delights even more in children who serve him gladly in unseen ways.
Wilderness Wanderings: The Story Behind The Book
Difficulty and suffering fill our lives, yet our hope and joy is found by looking to Jesus for our contentment, rather than ideal circumstances. I pray that my writing will point others to find their satisfaction in Christ instead of whatever else they think might fill that void.
The Proverbs 31 Woman Is The Church
We need one another. We depend on one another. We bless one another with our gifts…
Give Your Teenager To God
Our children’s growing independence should not lead us to fear, but to trust. Even when our kids step out of our reach, they never step out of God’s.
The Social Media Strategy of John the Baptist
What if we used whatever influence we have—whether over the crowd to whom we’re speaking or over the “followers” at our kitchen table—to point to the only One who can rescue and redeem?
Should I Be Friends With My Ex?
The best place to go after a breakup is not Netflix or cookie dough, but the word of God.