God offers a solution for the pain of alone by inviting us into relationship.

When we are honest, we ready ourselves to receive what our good God wants for us.

God sees us as beauty full because he sees us through Jesus.

God brings beauty in the broken.

We can make it our goal to be nice – or we can choose instead the goal of being real.

When I consider the events of life in macro highlights, I can see God's workings and my overarching story.

I can’t give what I haven’t received. I need to be forgiven much in order to love much.

Do we make the process of growing a fruitful life that matters harder than God intends?

In the midst of brokenness, Emmanuel came for you. And everyday he is with you.

Were my kids only getting the goodies or would they ever get the meaning behind them?

Giving thanks has a way of changing the way we look at life.

Christmas changes everything. It gives meaning to meanderings, wonder to our wanderings and joy to our journeys.

God is my true home, which makes me more content here and also homesick for something beyond here.

Any voice - even one that sounds cacophonous to us - can raise a beautiful offering of worship to our King.

God’s desire is that we gain an awareness of what enough means: to be satiated.

I blurted out a prayer to God. "This is a need-MUCH-of-God day. Not a handle-it-myself-with-just-a-bit-of-your help day." Really, Elisa?

In this season, I bless the next generation by moving out of the spotlight to let another shine.

We can be still and know that he is God. Sometimes that's all we need to do.

We grow up and out from the place of stability provided by our roots.

I’m not known by another because I hold back the very part of me that I wish they knew.