How to Make the Most of Each Day: Dwell and Cultivate, Part 1
Ever stand in the gap between yesterday and tomorrow with an unsettled question pulling at your insides? What next? As January begins to roll into February, I consider the possibilities of a year. Peering into the coming days, I find myself...
The Best Solution to a Resolution Rut
The best solution to your Resolution Rut: Seek Him. Feeling stuck can be miserable. Do firmly entrenched patterns keep you from moving forward? It’s hard to live life full, with every day your best day when you’re in a rut. If you find yourself...
Two Common Resolution Ruts that Could be Holding You Back
Avoid the Resolution Rut by making every day your best day is the first post in this New Year kick off on the blog. How do you know if you’re stuck in a Resolution Rut that is keeping you from making every day your best day? Growth,...
Avoid the Resolution Rut: Make Every Day Your Best Day
What’s in a year? They come. They go…with increasing speed. Days turn into weeks and before you know it, fifty-two weeks have turned into a year. It is easy to fall into the busy pace of days and lose the perspective that life is a...
This Christmas…Choose to Believe Part 2
This post is part of a longer reflection on choosing to believe when prayers go unanswered and waiting stretches on longer than expected. I recently revisited this story in a new podcast episode, expanding on the faithfulness of Zacharias and...
Beat the Craziness of Christmas–Commit to Worship Christ this Christmas
Have you noticed that December can get a little crazy? Is your to-do list as long as a role of toilet paper? Even before December rolls around, the craziness of the commercial side of Christmas creeps forward, breathing down the...
Preparing for Thanksgiving: From my House to Yours
Join me as I prepare for Thanksgiving–both home and heart. Oh give thanks to the Lord, call upon His name; Make known His deeds among the peoples. Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; Speak of all His wonders. I will give thanks to...
The Wonder of Autumn: Embracing God’s Glory-Gift of Fall
Embracing God’s Glory-Gift of Fall I love the sound of feet scuffling through the brittle crunch of fall leaves. This morning I walk in the woods crisp-cool and saturated with the fingerprint of God. Beauty surrounds me and peace...
Honoring and Caring for our Wounded Veterans
I waited in Harold and Kathy’s Diner for my friend to arrive. Finding a table in the small, but crowded dining area, I sat and looked around. I was surrounded by your average American, diner-eating crowd–a few workers, several...
