You Are God’s Good Idea
Raise your hand if you are a woman or man who doesn’t see their body shape, color, or size represented in magazine pages. I want you to know that I see you. I want you to know that you matter to me more than you will ever know. The reality of God’s love for you […]
Trust in His Timing
The words tumbling through my head these days are, “hurry up and wait.” Have you ever felt like a horse at the starting gate, full of nervous energy and anticipation, restlessly fidgeting about, aching for the chute to open so you can bolt through the doors and run the course you’ve longed for? That’s how […]
He is Lord of All
I don’t actually trust God. Yep. There it is. I said it. I do at times, but there are moments when my actions—or should I say—my inaction, proves otherwise. I love Jesus and all that the cross represents. I received Christ’s gift of salvation over twenty years ago. I have trusted Him with my eternal […]
Leaping into the Deep
“Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.” Luke 14:25 – 26 Jesus really knows how to clear […]
Eyes to the Cross – Knees to the Earth
With my eyes gazing out the foggy window of a fast-moving London bound taxi, I was overwhelmed by the goodness of the Lord. Twenty years ago my marriage to Simon began, and nineteen years ago we looked like another divorce statistic in the making. But now, with Simon in the front passenger seat talking to […]
From Self-Denial to True Life
I do not like being told “no.” If I want to do something, I should be able to do it. If I want to wear my jammies all day, I am allowed to be offended when my husband suggests that I put on “real” clothes. If I want to eat an entire pan of brownies, […]
True Beauty, Freedom and the Real You
“Charm is deceitful, and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.” -Proverbs 31:30 Growing up, my dad was my biggest fan. I asked him for his advice on everything, from how to thread a sewing machine to what kind of job I should have when I grew up. […]
God’s Plans In Our New Year
“Teach us to number our days so that we may truly live and achieve wisdom.” –Psalm 90:12, (Voice) A New Year stretches out before us. We all have desires, goals, and maybe even some resolutions that we would like to press into as we begin the year. We have high hopes that this year we will do […]
Gratitude In The Trenches
With her cheeks flushed red from standing in the 3 pm Arizona sun and her backpack filled like a paratrooper, my thirteen-year-old daughter jumped into the car with great anticipation. I figured she must have some “hot off the press” news to share about her day in the 8th grade, or an urgent question, but […]
Harvest Party!
This week is RW’s Instructor training Retreat Intensive in Williams, AZ and platoon 19 is worshiping and sweating, laughing and crying, moving and pressing into the the FREEDOM Christ has for us. It is a week of HARVEST – the seeds of truth sown in hearts come to fruition and beautiful fruit is reaped – […]
