“I just wish God would tell me what He wants me to do!” We hear people say this all the time; we’ve said it ourselves! Those of us who are church-going, God-seeking Christians desire to do God’s will, but sometimes it seems so evasive. Why is that? “Many are the plans in a person’s heart,…

Over the past few weeks, we’ve heard stories from women and their “press on” experiences. We’ve heard their struggles and read about the ways God has proven Himself to be faithful. They have shared about prayer and its power in their lives. Scripture and community have also been pathways of strength and hope during these…

Is there anything quite as peaceful as standing at the ocean, watching the waves tumble upon the shore as the wind brushes and tugs at your hair? You know that feeling. The sand crinkling beneath your toes, the salt sticking to your skin, the sun warming you from the inside out. There in that place,…

Allow me to take you back to a spring in my childhood—a day when the breeze still had that crisp freshness of past winter days, but the sun warmed it with a smile. Pollen coated everything in sight, and whenever the breeze really worked itself into a fuss, small clouds of yellow drifted by. There…

“You don’t need to breathe!” My coach yelled from across the pool in the middle of a set. My immediate thought was, “I beg to differ!”, but I could only suck in a couple more breaths before plunging beneath the water. I was in the middle of a conditioning exercise, one we completed at the…

It was warm, warmer than I like it to be. You would think after having lived in the South for the majority of my life I would be used to it, but I’m not. You see, I was trying to pray and I wanted to focus and the heat was making it difficult. It was…

The enemy looks for weakness. With laser-sharp focus, he prowls around looking for even the tiniest crack or crevasse to break through. Once he finds these holes his darts begin to fly. If we allow those arrows to penetrate and get in, they can become strongholds.  In her book, As Silver Refined, Kay Arthur gives…

Fill in the blank, “God blesses us so that ___________.” Take a moment and fill in the blank. What have you written there? Is it something about family? Work? Praising God? For me, I would put, “God blesses us so that we can bless others.” At least until recently, that’s what I thought. I was…

I’m a dreamer. As a little girl, I would often be reprimanded by my teachers for gazing into space and not paying attention. In my mind I was on task, dreaming about whatever project I had been assigned, all the while anticipating what I would do and how I would do it. Carefully crafting each…

You think you know, but you don’t. You’ve seen them all your life, but you’ve never understood until now. You’ve heard the complaints, but now you know how it feels. It’s a new place for you, one you never imagined you’d be in. You don’t like it.  It’s old age. And no one teaches you…