Last week, I shared my words for the year, “Open and Obedient.” I’ve really been focusing on following Jesus with my choices, taking risks when God provides an opportunity, and knowing when to step back from an opportunity. Likewise, I’ve had many moments of disappointment and waiting to assist in the sanctification process this year. […]
A Scripture Memorization Tool: How Do We Hide His Word in our Hearts?
Day after day, I tell my Fifth and Sixth Grade students the importance of hiding God’s Word in their hearts. I tell them of children in countries where they cannot have their Bibles sitting on their desks. I remind them that this is a freedom and that freedoms are not always forever. They may always […]
Brave and Free
You know her. She is strong and resilient. She loves so big and fully, with her eyes on the finish line of eternity. She speaks up about her struggle first so that others won’t be afraid to speak up about their own. She doesn’t hold back. She gives every bit of her heart to the […]
A Desperate Prayer: “Jesus, Please Give Me the Words to Say.”
This desperate prayer? It is probably the one that frequents my heart and my lips the most. I’m a woman of many words, but there are times. There are so many times that I know the most edifying words? The words that will encourage and soothe hurting souls? Those words aren’t by my strength. […]
Being Pro-life or Living Pro-life? The Very Real Difference That We All Need to Know
Women don’t talk about such things, the things that hurt so badly to remember, the one story that was rarely told because it was too surreal and scary a time to really ever recall. But I know. I know what it is to sit across from an obstetrician who says, “We cannot detect a […]
