It was the season of hayrides, corn mazes, and Halloween. I was roughly 7-years old when my parents, my younger brother, and I boarded an old yellow school bus that had been salvaged from a junk yard to give people rides to a small pumpkin farm. I was excited, young, and naïve. I truly thought…
Have you ever noticed that the Bible is full of “impossible” stories? Had they been published in an ancient newspaper, I can imagine some of the bold headlines reading: ~Noah and His Family Survive Destructive Worldwide Flood! ~Puny Shepherd Boy Annihilates Battle-Hardened Giant! ~Man Trapped Overnight with Lions Lives to Tell About It! ~EMPTY Tomb…
Going against the flow isn’t easy. Generally, it’s much simpler to keep your head down, do your best to fit in, and cater to the crowd, isn’t it? But what if that’s not God’s best for us in the moment? There was a woman in Luke 7 who took going against the flow to another…
Do you feel like God cares about your hopes and dreams? It’s sometimes hard to imagine He does when your current day-to-day life looks nothing like what you’d hoped or imagined. Years ago, at the young age of 24, I found myself divorced with two small children to care for. Not what I’d hoped for…
I was stuck. I had emotions to process, decisions to make, and people to talk to. My head was spinning with thoughts and the more it spun, the more stuck I felt. In an effort to be decisive about something, I sat down. I just wanted to cry. I wasn’t even sure what to pray….
Have you ever felt like you’re going backwards in life? Try as you may to move forward, it just seems like progress is unattainable and the only direction destined for you is reverse? I cannot tell you how many times I’ve felt that way! One of my more obvious examples comes from early on in…
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