Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?                                                                                                                    ~Romans 8:35a (ESV) When I used to read this passage, I thought about all the ways the world would try to separate us from Jesus. You know, kind of like a…

God rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to His eyes.                                                                                                   ~Psalm 18:24 (MSG) Bring the book of your heart to Jesus. That ragged, worn book with scribble on the dog-eared pages. Stained and torn. Open it to Him.

“To all who mourn in Israel, he will give a crown of beauty for ashes, a joyous blessing instead of mourning, festive praise instead of despair…”   ~Isaiah 61:3a (The Living Bible) As I share in my book, Fight, Flight, and Freeze (shameless plug…you should read it! 😊), my church does a great teaching on why…

I am ordinary. My life is ordinary. I go to my ordinary job. I worry about ordinary things. I stress about how to do it all. This is why I want to share. I know what it is like to be ordinary, but I have also found that God loves to take ordinary things and…