I recently heard Michael Hyatt and Jeff Goins talk about how every moment matters. About paring down our lives, redirecting our energy and our time, to focus on the things that ‘add value’. So that we might fulfill our purpose. Complete our destiny. So I began to notice what I was doing with my moments. Read more…
Bloom!
Today is a new day, and the truth is, it’s never too late to bloom. Life brings seasons of prickly places, when it feels as though you’ve been set upon a shelf, or things seem too painful to endure. But remember… God isn’t finished with you yet. Trust that out of the difficult places come spectacular Read more…
Choose Life
We have the power to speak life. Or death. For good or for bad, we have a choice in each word, each day. Choose life. When we say bad things about ourselves – that we’re too fat, too dumb, too broke, too broken – we have to wonder who we’re agreeing with. Such things don’t Read more…
Statistically Impossible Fingerprints of God
In order to see miracles, we must slow down to notice the statistically impossible fingerprints of God. In college, I was required to take statistics classes. I loathed them then, but am grateful for them now. They gave me eyes to see the improbable. The impossible. The miracles in the everyday. On a recent college Read more…
Remember Who You Are
It’s time to remember who you are. We are not what we do, what we have, where we are, what we’ve done, the mistakes we’ve made, or what’s been done to us. We are what our Creator made us to become. The enemy wants us to forget that. Give up. There is a choice to Read more…
Bur Under Your Saddle
Is there a bur under your saddle? That thing that won’t go away: that presses, and pinches, and prods at your soul? Perhaps it’s a blessing, this niggling beneath the surface that makes a plodding life uncomfortable. That motivates us to act because of the pain. What if the bur under your saddle is God’s Read more…
Times of Transition
I am in-between. So this weekend I read the book The In-Between. It gave me a sense of peace, knowing that when we’re stuck in one of those times of transition, between where we were and what we are becoming, God is there and up to something good. Looking back, we see the storms of Read more…
Embrace Life
I came away from a recent mountain retreat with this simple revelation: EMBRACE LIFE. Sometimes life hands us the unpleasant: difficult, painful, drudgery. And we resist, thinking this isn’t what we signed up for. We want adventure. Excitement. Romance. At the very least something fun. It’s exhausting, resisting what we’re given. But what if we Read more…
Come Away to the Mountain
I had come away to the mountain, sequestered in an elderly mini-cabin on wheels, to read, listen, write, and read some more. Devotionals, Bibles, books by authors whose words like water pour out on parched land. I sipped sweet cinnamon tea from a mug with a lid not quite right, that let drops run down Read more…
Permission to Retreat
I ran away with God. Gave myself permission to retreat. After so much of a lifetime spent running from, how sweet it was to simply be running to a place of quiet rest. Life is abundant these days with family, work, and friends – I am blessed. But at the end of a long season of Read more…