5 tips to better meal planning
If you could eat one thing for the rest of your life, what would it be? Mine would be bread. This involuntarily gluten-free gal loves the nutty taste of warm, crusty, whole wheat bread fresh out of the oven. It’s wholesome, it’s delicious, it’s sustainable. But bread right out of the oven doesn’t just appear […]
This isn’t about getting fit quick
*Post Updated June 2024 Are you ready for a course correction? Maybe you’re thinking through some new rhythms for health. You’re setting goals, making plans about how to form some healthy habits, and how to create lasting change. That’s certainly me. In the past few months, I have noticed some patterns forming that I know […]
Try this for a deeper connection with your family
Are you longing for more connection in your home? Today I would like to share with you a little tip with big returns for you and your family. Trust me when I say that it can take you a very long way in keeping the soul of your family alive and well. Applying this mind-body […]
Another slice of trust won’t hurt
I fear the unknown. Don’t we all? With early childhood trauma, and loved ones leaving this earth sooner than I ever thought they would, I grew up fearing death. I feared it so deeply that it some ways it seemed to consume me. Earlier this year I was diagnosed with severe anemia. I was faced […]
Ask this question before you try to be stronger
“I lift up my eyes to the mountains, where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.” -Psalm 121 : 1-2 About a year ago, God gave me a picture of me trying to push a broken down car up a hill all by myself. There I […]
How to stay light when your emotions are heavy
“Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them” – Mark 11:23 Don’t allow a social-media smokescreen to convince you that the zip and zeal of energy […]
When you’re asked to give up that good thing
“The way you counsel and correct me makes me praise you more, for your whispers in the night give me wisdom, showing me what to do next. Because you are close to me and always available, my confidence will never be shaken, for I experience your wrap-around presence every moment. My heart and soul explode […]
This is better than your to-do list
As a father of two daughters (7 and 3 years old), I decided that it would be important for me to follow along when the Heir to the Crown Challenge began. The most significant thing I learned through the challenge was that if I want to live a life of true freedom in Christ, I […]
He First Loved Us
Britney: Good memory has never been my strong suit. There are years from childhood that I have no knowledge of at all, but there is one thing I can never forget. At the age of nine, I began praying for my husband, who I knew would be a pastor. Josh: At the age of twelve […]
Looking Everywhere But Up
Have you heard the song lyric “Looking for love in all the wrong places?” It’s a country song from 1980, and it could be the theme song for my childhood. I was born into a large family as the youngest of 11. My parents were pioneers of dysfunction, and I grew up in a pretty […]
