Psalms 42
Oh God I need you. I need your rest your quietness and your peace. I yearn for Your presence in my life. "As the deer pants for streams...
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Another Thanksgiving
"Rejoice in the Lord always again I say rejoice. Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Be anxious for nothing, but in...
A beautiful life
"He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from...
Even If...
"I know You're able and I know You can Save through the fire with Your mighty hand But even if You don't My hope is You alone They say it...
A mental reset
I've been reading two amazing books: "Get Your Life Back" by John Eldredge and "Undistracted" by Bob Goff and both books have really...
Fruit in Every Season
Psalm 1:2 "But they delight in the law of the Lord, meditating on it day and night. They are like trees planted along the riverbank,...
The Day I Did CPR
For a long time after that day, I constantly felt the need to check myself for my own pulse. I pressed two fingers under my neck to check...
On healing, hope, and bitterness
I was looking at a picture on my phone from exactly one year ago on this day. I was smiling with a big vase of flowers and my eyes looked...
Breathe.
Dear me, You are tired. Rest a while. Be still. Breathe. Be calm. Don't worry about your to do list. Life is so much more than getting...
A Letter to Nurses and Doctors
Dear coworker, companion, or MD, I think you are so brave. I really do. I admire you so much. I see you looking away, being bashful, even...
There will be days- poetry
There will be days When you fall on your face Just trying to walk And you feel like everyone's laughing at you There will be days When...
Stillness
The world spins... but sometimes the world in our head spins faster. Faster than we can accomplish, faster than what we can do, faster...
On praising the Lord... even in hard circumstances
"Come and see what the Lord has done; he is awesome in his deeds toward the children of God." Psalms 66:5 I don't know if you are in a...
Jeremy's accident
It's been a week and a half since the accident... sometimes it all seems like a bad dream. There's not an hour that goes by that I don't...
On trusting more fully
Are you afraid to surrender? Afraid God may ask you to do something you do not want to do? What if he hurts you and the pain is too much?...
Broken Pieces
I think as humans we're often ashamed of our brokenness. We are ashamed of the dark parts of our story, the hard things we have...
Love vs Lust and the Purpose of Marriage
Lately I have been contemplating more often what it means to love someone and God's design for a Biblical, God- honoring marriage. What...
Feast of the Tabernacle
There is a certain Jewish celebration, holiday, and ritual that is beautiful and meaningful, yet many people do not talk about. The...
Present After Perfect
The Art of Living Slowly There's a book I am re-reading called "Present Over Perfect" by Shauna Niequist. It was very influential for me...
Empty Nets
I don't know if you've ever sacrificed something big for God. I don't just mean giving up a friendship, or an ice cream addiction, but...