I don't know when I've been more thankful for the arrival of spring. Winter seems like it's lasted a really long time. I know we had spring last year - I remember sitting outside on my porch and enjoying nice weather. But the joy of spring was mixed in with the COVID,...
The winter season isn't usually my favorite. It seems to be covered in a long dreariness where everything is colored in grey. Even school seems to take longer during the winter months of the year. Winter isn't usually other people's favorite season either. When asked...
It's been a minute since I've posted a blog. Actually, it's been a month. A long, hot, August month to be exact. But I've found I need to pause in the middle of the summer in order to have enough breath in my lungs to exhale throughout the fall. The odd thing has been...
While I expected things to be different this fall, I didn’t expect to still be so weary. And I think it’s because waiting has it’s own particular burden of weariness. While we are not carrying anything tangible in the physical realm, our hearts can strain under the...
The season we are in continues to leave our hearts feeling dry and heavy. Join me today as I share encouragement from Psalm 42 about the living water our souls were made to drink, as well as the best way to apply that living water to our hearts through the tools and...
Earlier this week I wrote about feeling uprooted during this season of life. (To read that blog post, click here). From the responses I've received, it seems many of us are sharing the same feelings of being ripped, stripped, with a tangible sense of loss, without...
It's been a season of shaking. From a worldwide pandemic, fear of sickness and death, economic shutdown, school closings, job loss, the death of George Floyd, and the exposure of the ugly sin of racism and the response to it, everything that seemed stable in January...
Last week I shared the struggle I was having in sleeping through the night (click here to read). Through the words of Psalm 63, God reminded me to make a meal of His presence in the middle of the night instead of my worry. He also reminded me that when seasons of...
School is cancelled. Let me say that again - school is officially cancelled. And while that may bring shouts of joy and cheer to our children, it could also bring sobs of deep anguish from parents. While stay-at-home restrictions are gradually being lifted, we still...
At the end of the week with mounting pressure and growing weariness, I interviewed my husband, Jason, a business owner here in Houston. We talk openly and honestly about the challenges and necessity of depending on God and His Word and what this looks like from a...