We long to find someone who has been where we've been, who shares our fragile places, who sees our sunsets with the same shades of blue. Soul mates. They somehow validate the depth of our experiences.

God has promised to every single one of us that even in our hardest times, if we would just hang on long enough, the blessing will come.

Trying to obey and serve God before we've come to love Him can be exhausting.

There is not a single darkness if you life that God cannot bring His light upon.

God honors a beautiful blend of gift and grit! He gives the gift, and He expects us to have the grit to practice and learn how to use it effectively.

People don't need Christians to act like we always have it together. People need us to be real! What kind of healing would come if we all just got real before God and others?

Father God, thank You for having no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, You did by sending Your own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. (Rom. 8:1-3) Help me to understand that the loving chastisement that might come to me after I have rebelled against You is only in the purest Father's love and is never to be confused with condemnation. (Heb. 12:6)