When we don’t get what we think we want, it’s time to dig deep and find the Source of awe and patience inside. The Truth is hard and beautiful, worth infinitely more than your time. He’s crafting something better than you can even imagine right now. When will your heart be open enough to receive it? Unanswered […]
When I was younger, I turned to God to get what I wanted out of life. I was educated and had always been a caring, hard working and relatively well behaved person, but I noticed in the adult world, those weren’t necessarily the characteristics required to achieve happiness. Things just seemed to mysteriously work out […]
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. – Hebrews 4:12 Do you ever wonder what God is saying to […]
To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle. – Walt Whitman To fully experience the joy a life of faith can offer, we must cultivate a spirit of gratitude. Life can be hard, but the truth is: God is walking with us through it all, whether our hearts are […]
You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy. -John 16:20 Out of difficulties grow miracles. -Jean de La Bruyère Who longs for suffering? Only the saints. Rather than welcome sorrow, most of us would do anything to avoid it. When pain sneaks into our hearts like a Trojan horse anyway, we may start to notice […]
John 14:27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. I am a born worrier, who has been transformed by grace into a prayer warrior, who doesn’t stay stuck in fear […]