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Mind Games

Have you ever been sitting, minding your own business when a lie creeps into your head? It is so subtle. It makes sense. It could be true. Then, another one comes. And another. Pretty soon, you’re swarmed by these lies,…

The Blinds of the Heart

One of the first things I do in the morning is open the blinds. It’s still dark outside, but I know that the sun will soon shine over the field of winter wheat and make its appearance above the trees. …

Looking for Honor

Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you. - EXODUS 20:12, NKJV Honor your father. A commandment I struggled with for decades. I used to stare…

The Role of The Church and Abortion – It’s Not What You Think

This morning, sitting inside a coffee shop, my eyes were intently focused as I tried taking in every piece of bleeding emotion dripping from the story that was unfolding directly across the table. I tried to take it all in, the woman sitting barely…

Redemption in a Tornado

I drove through a tornado the other day. We aren't supposed to get tornadoes around here. Lived here most of my life. (I can’t say I’ve lived here all of it because I’m not done yet. Which was witnessed by…

Unexpected Grace

Our family was living in Iceland as missionaries when my biggest fear collided with reality: something was wrong with our baby. The twenty-week ultrasound revealed that only half of her heart was developing. In the months following this, questions began to…

Remembering Grace

Sometimes I wonder how I even made it through that week. I knew for a week’s time that I was going to have to confess to Jeremy. I just had to wait for him to get home from a trip…

Finding Your Worth in Him

I don’t know about you, but often times I find myself struggling with the “not good enough syndrome.” If I’m not careful, it consumes my thoughts. “I’m failing as a mother,” “I’m not a good wife,” “I’m ugly” and so…

May our words be laced with Grace

Oh how my heart wavered for so long. It would waffle between confidence (false at that), happy, sad, insecure and so on. You see, for a long time I valued the opinions of others more than I valued the words…

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