Following His Path To Something Beautiful
Years ago, I was at a guard competition and as one of the guards put on a stellar show, I watched as their coach threw a stuffed bear in the air in utter joy for what she witnessed. That picture has stayed with me since, and reflects what happens in my heart when He surely is faithful to fulfill His promises.
Imagine you are in church one day. The church is fairly crowded. As the pastor is in the middle of his message, a government official brings a woman into the crowded church, brings her to the front where the teacher is, and in front of the church explains that she was caught in the act of [...]
The beginning of 2013 I really felt God leading me to step back from a few of the places I was serving. Feeling God lead me this way shocked me because I always like to be doing something, but by the end of the spring I was burnt out. Burn out is not fun friends, and He lead me to do something that was really uncomfortable for me… rest.
"He's bugging out because I won't give him a cookie" That is the text that I get from my husband right as I'm sitting down for my car to be serviced. I asked why he wouldn't give Charlie a cookie and it was because he had already had two. Well that's a good reason, but Charlie did not understand that.
Very recently I got to a place in my faith that really scared me. God was bringing me to a depth that I didn’t know existed, and honestly I didn’t know if I even wanted to go. He was entrusting me with things that I probably wouldn’t trust myself with. On Easter Sunday I heard a message on “going where God leads you”.
There are weeks when it is hard to know what to write about. Either I am torn about what to share, I just don't really feel like much is on my heart, or the words just do not seem to be flowing easily. Usually I get confirmation through a Bible verse that I have come [...]
My friend Jen told me a story recently about a man she met on a long drive as she stopped at a gas station. The gas station didn’t have a bathroom (seriously what gas station doesn’t have a bathroom?!), so she had to walk across the street to the Subway. There sat a man. Jen [...]
So you know those nightmares you have before you get married, or have a baby, or start a new job? You know the one where your wedding dress falls off, or your maid of honor falls into the cake? Or the one where you baby comes out an alien, of a ferocious sea creature!? Well [...]
Have you ever looked at the stars? The canvas of little specs of lights in the pitch black night. But they aren’t little specs of lights are they? We know that up close, stars are not so small after all. They are really big and really bright! Over the summer Mike and I went on [...]
Waiting...we all wait. We wait in line at the movies, wait in line at the grocery store, wait in traffic, wait for our company to show up, wait for the brownies to be done baking (by the way totally enjoying a brownie right now as I write) or for the babysitter to come over. We [...]
