I saw these pearls in a dumpster last winter and the image struck me. I immediately thought of Matthew 7:6: “Don’t give what is holy to dogs or toss your pearls before pigs, or they will trample them with their feet, turn, and tear you to pieces” (HCSB). I realized that so often, we throw…
Many of us have been there. A situation forever alters the way we live. We cry out to God for mercy, but it seems to fall on deaf ears. Then the thought enters our minds that maybe God doesn’t care. Maybe it started on the first day of school when you had no one to…
You make beautiful things You make beautiful things out of the dust You make beautiful things You make beautiful things out of us. ~Gungor The most popular show on HGTV is Fixer Upper. The show highlights how Chip and Joanna Gaines renovate outdated and sometimes dilapidated houses into beautiful showcase homes. While Chip works…
On my way to a counseling appointment recently, I was thinking about what I wanted to discuss with my therapist. All at once the inadequacies I felt as a woman, a wife, a mother, a friend, a missionary, and a writer smacked me in the face, and I began to make a mental list of…
After watching my first episode of Fixer Upper with Chip and Joanna Gaines, I quickly jumped on the American bandwagon of loving all things DIY. I love how they transform these houses (some of them “dumps”) into homes of beauty. I don’t naturally see the beauty in a dirty chest of drawers or a run-down…
“You can’t reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday’s junk.” ~Louise Smith I have two huge bags of books in the trunk of my car. They have been there for over a year. I’ve been meaning to donate them, but I keep forgetting they’re there–until I open my trunk to…