The costumes and masks we use in our day-to-day lives can make it difficult to find God even when he is right there.

Unmet longings don’t hinder our faith, they enhance it.

Freedom is found not in total autonomy but within the parameters God has set for human flourishing.

Places of difficulty and even trauma are perfect places to experience and share God’s comfort.

Jesus doesn’t redeem us into someone else—he makes us the healed version of ourselves.

Would true Christian love lead me to meet my brother’s needs as instinctively as I meet my own?

If we let it, retreat exposes our beautiful uselessness, vulnerability, and inability to earn what we most need from God.

Let these signs of aging increase my longing for eternity, and my desire for True Beauty.

The rooting in the soil of our souls in this new year may include naming both the difficult and the good from the past year.

Life is one step at a time. One foot in front of the other.

Immanuel entered my world. He reached down into my life, right into my pain.

In-between times can feel disorienting. We don’t know what lies ahead.

I’ve been waiting a year for God to answer one prayer. And he’s told me to wait.

God’s no matter what love is not thwarted by our tragedy-laden family trees.

I am created in the image of God. I guess it’s time I started looking like it.

God’s place for his daughters is spacious and beautiful.

You are not invisible to God.

Time in nature directs us to the mystery and beauty of something completely other.

Jesus loved and valued women in ways that were breathtakingly different.

God, keep my heart open for new relationships you send my way.