Many of us want to know what we can do to help. It’s a time of conflict. But these are still refugees. Those who need sanctuary. If your heart isn’t broken by this… Watching the headlines? Want to help #refugees? @cara_putman recommends @samaritanspurse #james127 Click To Tweet So what do we do? I can’t go to Greece. But I know …
Choosing fear or peace?
I know that I get to choose which road I will walk in this life. That I will walk with wisdom, but that I will walk with an eye to do everything God has placed in front of me while I am here.
Change: an Opportunity for a Fresh Promised Land
We’re all in stages of change. Some aren’t as dramatic as the one our church is experiencing. But change is a constant part of life. Therefore, our choice is to embrace or resist. May this promise from God’s Word encourage you in the midst of your change.
The Comparison Game
Late last week I was somewhere – where doesn’t matter – but as I left my heart was grieved. Why? Because I listened to two younger moms talk for almost an hour about who’s schedule was more chaotic and driven than the others. As I listened my heart broke in so many ways. Maybe you can guess some of them. …
That My Steps might be Steady
My goal in the way I lead life is for my steps to always be pointed toward Jesus. It doesn’t mean I’m perfect. It doesn’t mean things I do or say aren’t taken out of context and misinterpreted. But I’m learning I’m not responsible for another person’s behavior. I’m responsible for my heart, my motives, my actions. That’s what I can control.
Monday Meditations: Finding God in the Pauses
Tomorrow I head to ACFW, which means I’m a little swamped. So today I’m digging into the blog archives. This post is from 2012. As my fall is racing away from me, I found it poignant to look back at this post. In many ways, life is filled with seasons of waiting and pausing. It’s so hard to savor those seasons. It’s …
The Grove: Trusting God to Fill My Kindness Gaps
Today, I’m over at the Grove. Here’s the beginning of the post, but I welcome you to join us over there for the balance…. I long to be a woman of kindness. A woman who breathes grace and peace wherever she goes. One who extends a helping hand to those in need, an encouraging word to those who feel alone, …
The Best Yes: Where from Here — 4 Application Steps
One challenge of reading a book like The Best Yes is the application. Reading a book is one thing. Doing something with what you’ve learned is hard. Hard work. Hard remembering. Hard applying. So what can we do? Here are a few suggestions: 4 steps to applying new #principles to your life. #TheBestYes #challenge Click To Tweet 1) Take …
Packing Light with God
We moved Saturday. The chaos is OVERWHELMING. Utterly, completely, creativity-killing overwhelming. Because we only moved a mile, this has been the long move. Literally, we’ve been moving things off and on for months. But Saturday, with the help of AMAZING friends, we moved the furniture. It’s kind of mind-boggling how much stuff 6 people have. I thought we’d done a …
3 Kinds of People Pleasing Reponses
This week in the Best Yes we had a great conversation about people pleasing. Is anyone out there a people pleaser? Please don’t leave me hanging in my struggling-to-recover-from-people-pleasing reality. Do you live in a people-pleasing reality? Join @cara_putman as she talks about the cycle. Click To Tweet People Pleasing is wired into some of us. I know as an …