A year ago…  I lay in bed with my husband trying to hold back the tears.  It wasn’t working.  Life was just not turning out like I had thought it would. There is pain in every part, disappointment in each space that makes up the whole of my existence… my calling, life as a mother,… Read More When You are Feeling Done with the Promises of God

You never want to find yourself hanging over a toilet hours after you buy a house… but that is where I found myself a little over a year ago, so sick to my stomach that it literally was making me ill.   We had just closed on a home… a home that in so many… Read More 4 Things I am Learning about How to Live into a Bad Decision

Recently I found myself in a familiar story in Scripture.  The story of the Rich Young Ruler in Luke 18.  It is one I know well. A man comes to Jesus asking what he must do to inherit eternal life.  Jesus tells him, “Follow the commandments.”  The man’s response, “Yep, got that down!”  Then Jesus… Read More Threading a Camel Through a Needle’s Eye