Have you ever noticed how many significant moments in the Bible happen on mountaintops? Abraham obeys God’s command to bring Isaac up a mountain as a sacrifice and shows himself faithful (Genesis 22). Moses receives the ten commandments twice on a mountain, and God allows him to view the Promised Land from the top (Exodus…
As a starry-eyed newlywed, I envisioned life with little stress, exciting jobs, more than enough money, and easy-to-parent kids. But as the years have accumulated, my reality has felt different. Can you relate? Decisions feel heavy, work is sometimes whatever pays the bills, the bank account can feel stretched too thin, and parenting is just…
The greatest gift I’ve ever given myself was the bravery to press into pain and the freedom to heal from it. And it’s exactly what I want for you. It’s why I wrote Brave Enough to Be Broken. It almost feels like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? Like brave and broken shouldn’t be in the same…
“I tell you, even though he will not get up and give you the bread because of friendship, yet because of your shameless audacity he will surely get up and give you as much as you need. So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find;…
Like many other women I know, I consider myself a “part of the solution, not part of the problem” kind of woman. Our values include not complaining or pointing fingers. Not sitting back and whining while others do the heavy lifting to right wrongs or to address problems in our world. Jesus modeled a face-to-face,…
I shifted my weight from one foot to the other and hoped no one would answer my knock. As the door opened in front of me, my heart beat faster. “Uh,” I said as I looked up into the eyes of the adult before me. I was in fourth grade. Every year, my Christian school…