In the moments when the emotions threaten to spill over, I’m reminded that Jesus wept, too. He felt the emotions we feel — the ones we often feel plagued with. He wept, because He, like us, was designed with emotions with the Father’s heart in mind. Made in the image of God, emotions and all.
Read MoreFriends are essential, but as the Bible says, there is a time and season for everything. Let's check our friendship connection. Are there some friendships that have become stale and stagnant? Is it adding more weight than joy to your life? Are you consulting God about your friends?
Read MoreGod’s grace is abundant and sufficient. Don’t feel as though you have to figure everything out on your own. God is working on our character, perfecting us until the day of Jesus Christ when we will finally be perfected.
Read MoreWe get so caught up in the theory of being empathetic that we forget how to take the time to apply it in our daily lives. Empathy is tied with intentionality. You can’t have empathy without taking deliberate time to connect to someone’s pain and situation.
Read MoreThe human connection with music is powerful. It helps us through every facet of life. I don't know what we would do if music didn't exist. But, even more-so, music with Jesus is like the blood running through our veins; we need it.
Read MoreThe nine qualities listed in the Fruit of the Spirit scripture are not simple expectations. Rather, they hold a great deal of weight and have a direct correlation to the depth of your own self-awareness and your ability to connect to others and to Christ.
Read MoreGod didn’t create us to be compartmentalized, He created us to be holistic humans who are immensely complex.
Read MoreMy mom is a wise woman. She spoke these words over dinner the other night, and they’ve stuck with me ever since: “It’s crazy how unseen things, can be so seen.” I know that she was talking about the effects of the virus that has shaken our world, but to look at it in the way of family connections changes everything.
Read MoreIn saying yes to His instructions, I am able to connect with Him in a brand new way. He is peeling back layers and layers of Who He is in me!
Read MoreGod is a God of many opportunities. Even now, we have been give the opportunity to put everything on pause and truly seek God. He wants to speak to us, he wants to give us several opportunities to hear him. This is the time we can make up for those lost connections we have encountered before.
Read MoreHere I was thinking so little of myself, when God knows me so intimately and cares for me so passionately. Just as a creative requires attention to detail and knows their work forward and backward, how much more thought would God have put into creating and knowing you?
Read MoreWhen God said “let’s make man in our own image,” I don’t think He was kidding or using hyperbole. I fully believe that when He made us, He infused us with His nature—including His immense and beautiful creativity.
Read MoreGod set apart the seventh day. He is the creator of all things so He determines how all things are used. If God has set the seventh day apart for His use, why do I think I should override what God planned?
Read MoreI believe that as much as we should look to the future to see how we want to improve, we should take the time to reflect back on how far we’ve come. I can physically see my skills improve on a bike and I can track the distance I’ve traveled around my neighborhood. We can think the same way about those other areas of our lives, too.
Read MoreHonestly, pressing through is exhausting. We all reach our breaking point, eventually. Because as much as any one of us would like to be superwoman, at some point we all realize we can’t jump off buildings or rescue every person.
Read MoreI still challenge myself every day and I pose to you that regardless of the changes that come our way, we face them with confidence to learn from where we’ve come from and to know that we’ll learn something from whatever comes next.
Read MoreWhen I think my sole purpose is achievement, I forget the more important things like slowing down, listening to myself and stewarding the body God has entrusted to me well.
Read MoreDepending on our perspective and situation, we either have too much time on our hands or we just can’t get enough of it as the hours fly by. The fact still remains — we only have 24 hours a day and the way we use the time God has given us shows where our devotion lies.
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