People-Pleaser. I’m pretty sure if I were to have a phrase tattooed on my forehead, it would be “people-pleaser.” I know there are many of you who are reading this saying, “Yup! That’s me too!” Now in a way, people-pleasing can be a great thing. Jesus commands us to help and serve one another in love and […]

We have heard the adage, “Today is a gift, that’s why it’s called ‘the present!’” But how can we BE present when so many distractions are calling us to look forward or to look behind? How do we find the balance between the tenses so that the here and now aren’t completely overlooked in the […]

What is sacrificial love? The question is posed to a room full of young people. I mull that question over in my mind. Over, and over, and over. It tumbles through my thoughts as I’m shoving suitcases into the back of the van the next morning–trying to get people loaded up, because we’re running not […]

I always expect the worst. That way, bad outcomes are never as bad as what I imagined. And when the worst does happen, at least I get the strange, sad pleasure of saying “I knew it.” My trick is that I keep this whole thought process internal, so people don’t label me as a pessimist. […]

“I just don’t feel like myself.” That’s what I heard myself saying to a room full of women, half of which I’d just met. As hard as I tried to keep it all locked inside, the tears began to fall, like I was mourning a someone gone missing. She felt long gone, the real me. […]

by: Emily Livingston “My faith is my sanity. It’s true. I am truly not in my right mind when I do not meet with my Heavenly Father in the morning before the hurry of classes and friends and work. My faith is me rolling out of bed a little earlier than I need to and […]

I woke up early this morning and took a peek out the window.  My breath caught in my throat.  The most intense sunrise I’ve ever seen was just hanging out in the sky, like it didn’t care if anyone saw it or not. No sounds, no warning.  One minute it was dark, the next the […]

Space. Finally, I exhaled. It’s something my heart had been longing for, as I’ve been practicing the running again. Traveling here, traveling there. Seeing people. It was my off season, so I had the time. And it was just like me to fill my time to the brim. I filled it with good things, good […]

I’ll be taking a little break in our normal posts here on Wednesday’s features to give you all a little encouragement from a girl who is a lot like you. Maybe more like you than you might think! First off, our features here on the delight blog are meant to inspire, encourage and push you […]

It’s a new season.” We sang that over and over, a spontaneous worship moment at the Pursuit Conference, and my heart wanted to sing it from a rooftop. “It’s a new season, you’re making all things new.” A year ago, I went to the Pursuit conference on the tail end of a very bad year. […]

There are days we just long to feel new. That day, my heart was heavy, hurting. Like the clouds hanging above, I was under a weight. And I felt God’s voice gently calling me, Come to me. Remember who you are, beloved. I put on my jacket and left the house, boots trudging through snow. […]

The evergreen trees were covered with snow; all nature was quiet in one grand hush. The trail stretched out ahead, endlessly. I gripped the edge of my ski poles, looked down at my feet as I glided each ski forward, forward. I don’t know how long my body was in this motion before I realized, […]

2000 years ago, a man unlike any other chose love and death. He chose to carry a cross on which he would die. He chose to endure hours of unrelenting torture, his face beaten beyond recognition, blood pouring into his eyes from thorns shoved into his skull. He allowed nails to pound through his hands […]