Not Alone in Our Bent for Self Destruction
Confession time: I have a propensity toward the dark and unhealthy things in this world. When I was younger it was obvious in how I...
The Importance of Mourning... Even In The Smaller Things
I was reading Esther the other day and it was struck by the veracity with which Mordecai mourned. This got me thinking about how in our...
The Normalcy Of The Miraculous
When I first started to travel to other countries, one thing that always shocked me was how no matter where I went, I felt at home. I...
Grown Enough
From time to time, I have found myself telling God, “I’m strong enough. I don’t need to grow anymore. Really, I’m content with who I...
When Faith Feels Hard
I don’t know about you, but on any given day I can run the entire gambit of emotions when it comes to my contentment level. “I do...
Finding Encouragement in The Boring Begats
I’m reading the book of Ezra, and in chapter two it hits you with a bunch of begats... So and so begat so and so who begat so and so who...
The Longest Eight Hours
When I first arrived in my new home halfway around the world I was 21 and naive about how naive I was. I was hooked on nicotine and...
Enjoying the Ordinary
Everybody’s working for the weekend... Or everybody’s working for a vacation or the next big something. I was never aware of how much...
Came In As Fear But Left As Awe And Trust
It was a normal Monday afternoon at work full of normal Monday things. I had packed the girls’ lunches for school the next day and was...
What Did He See?
What Did He See? For those of us who are followers of Christ, we hang our lives on the knowledge that Jesus came, lived a sinless life,...
