I’ll be honest. I went through a bit of a grumpy season earlier this year. Do you have those moments when you get a bit of vision, a glance of a dream, and all you want to do is run toward it? But instead, you turn around and run straight into a wall? That was […]

In 2 Kings 6:1-7, there’s a very interesting little story.  There’s really nothing that precedes it or comes after it to show us why it’s actually in the bible. Elisha is living in a kind of barracks for prophets, and one of them tells him that they want to move to a bigger place.  So […]

Have you ever had one of those days [or weeks, more like] where every time you scroll through Instagram or Facebook you are amazed by all of the incredible things your friends and people you admire are doing? One person posts a picture from their incredible trip to London, the next friend announces an internship […]

“I feel like a failure.” I confessed it to him, let the word slip off my lips as I looked at the black night sky, twinkling with stars. I felt the cool air on my shoulders, hugged my arms and exhaled. “I feel like no matter what I do, I’m going to end up disappointing […]

The other day I was flipping through the New Testament, and I was noticing how many parables are in the scriptures.  There are around 46 parables.  I started to think about Jesus, and how he taught by telling these stories.  It was much more common for Him to teach using parables instead of speaking like a […]

Friends, I am going to be very real with you. I have been the complete opposite of disciplined. All of those things I talked about a few weeks ago? I’m still in the exact same place. Struggling with the same stuff.  And that fact almost made me not write this. In this crazy and chaotic […]

Wait on the Lord.  Something that appears over, and over, and over in the Bible.  Wait on Him. Is that the same thing as patience?  I say a little bit yes, but mostly no.  Patience doesn’t mean to wait.  The dictionary definition defines patiences this way: the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering […]

I remember the moment. It was my last day interning at Random House Publishing. Being surrounded by books, my dream world. I walked into the room with all the galley copies, with their fresh smelling pages. I was given empty bags and told, “Take whatever you’d like.” I filled those bags – filled them high […]

Recently, I took a long hard look back at my life over the past year.  I realized that while God was taking me deeper with Him and through some healing that, while painful and hard, was liberating me and opening my heart for new revelation of how much Papa God loves me….I had been missing something vital, […]

Image by: Hannah Durston by: Emma Schramm Let me share a confession with you, my sisters. I struggle with reading my Bible and allotting part of my day for one-on-one time with the Lord. Now, it’s not the actual reading of the Bible or finding the time that I struggle with, but I struggle in […]

The girl stood barefoot in a patch of clover and looked out at the endless fields in the distance.  Her feet were bare, the ground and the green grass and weeds were soft and lush under her feet, but another season was here, she could see it on the horizon.  Dried out wheat, corn, and […]

At the age of 19 and 20, Jonathan Edwards, the theologian from the 1700’s that has largely impacted Christianity throughout the ages, wrote a long list of resolutions. This list, that can now be found in book form, was a compilation of his resolves for every day, every week, every month, in every year of […]