Category: Faithful

  • Walking with the Shepherd: A Journey through Psalm 23

    Lord, You are my Shepherd. You are my Keeper, my Defender, my Guardian—my Protector. When I am living under the umbrella of Your care, when I am following You, there is nothing that I lack. There is nothing that I lack. When the world pulls me in so many directions, I look to You. I…

  • The Blank Canvas of a New Day

    I sit and watch as beautiful pastel colors seep and blend into the canvas of the dark morning sky, like watercolors spilling onto a blank piece of paper, and I think about the blank canvas of this new day. And I wonder what the Master Artist envisions for me today. For my children, for the…

  • What the Trees Teach Us About Waiting & the Winter Season

    There’s something majestic & beautiful about the trees standing bare, stripped of all their glory. They teach us about seasons…

  • The Wrestling Before the Praise

    “BUT, I have trusted in Your faithful love; my heart will rejoice in Your deliverance. I will sing to the Lord because He has treated me generously.” Psalm 13:5-6 Why do these verses of praise start with a “but”? Before the Psalmist gets to the praise, some wrestling was going on. I get that. I…

  • The Way to “Be Still”…

    The verse “Be still and know that I am God” encourages us to release our worries, anxieties, and control, and to embrace stillness in God’s presence. By experiencing and recognizing Him, leaning into His plan, and trusting His character, we find peace, healing, joy, protection, and rest. This trust allows our minds to rest freely…

  • Messy

    When I say that I’m a Christ-follower… Don’t shy away Because you think that I think I’m Good Better Holier. Don’t clam up, because you think you can’t share your brokenness. I’m broken. Don’t be silent about your messiness. I’m messy. Don’t pretend to be perfect, together. I’m not. I’m imperfect. I’m never together. If…

  • Hills and Finishing

    On the hard hills, it’s a struggle to look up…in life and in running. I find myself not wanting to actually look at the hill…all I can manage to do is look down and see is one foot moving in front of the other. The hills are hard. Exhausting. Sometimes you want to sit…or quit…or…

  • Unknown Paths

    All of a sudden, life halts our perfectly paved and planned-out journey and takes us for an unexpected turn down a rocky, rough, difficult, unpredictable path. We look at the path that we’ve been on…we look at the destination that we were headed for…and none of it makes sense. We can’t even see where this…

  • Search and Know…Reflections From Psalm 139:1

    O Lord, You have searched me and known me! Psalm 139:1 Do you remember the excitement of new love?! Do you remember how it felt in the discovery stage of one another…when you began to realize that this new person in your life might possibly be “the one” that you’ve been waiting for and praying…