Category: Faith

  • The Risks & Blessings of Praying for Humility

    The Risks & Blessings of Praying for Humility

    While I expected and foresaw the risks of praying for humility, I didn’t anticipate the blessings. There have been two blessings in particular:

  • Weary One, Take Heart

    Weary One, Take Heart

    The events in your life are for a glorious purpose: to make you holy like your Savior and beloved brother, Jesus.

  • 4 Habits to Help Your Heart Give Thanks (When You Don’t Want To)

    4 Habits to Help Your Heart Give Thanks (When You Don’t Want To)

    Thanks. It’s a simple word and one we hear all the time, especially during this month. Anyone can say it; it’s not reserved for the healthy, strong, or rich among us. In fact, it makes no difference how rich or poor, young or old, healthy or sick you are…you can use this word and it…

  • Can You Rest While You Wait?

    Can You Rest While You Wait?

    This fall played out much differently than I imagined. I thought since all four of my children would be in school full-time, the world of possibilities would open up to me and it would be wildly, laughably easy to snatch up a job that would be perfectly suited to my needs, desires, and capabilities. Fast forward through…

  • Not Alive

    Not Alive

    I wonder where God has you right now? I’m not so much wondering about your physical location, though that’s certainly part of it. I’m more wondering about your entire season of life—where you live, who you’re caring for, and what you’re doing (and perhaps what you’re not doing). How are you doing in your current…