God's heart…is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it.

Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It lurks. It pounces. It colors how we perceive the world.

The roadblocks to growth and joy come when we forget the bigness of God & instead make people bigger than He is.

Pain can either thrust me into the arms of Jesus or make me turn my back on Him. Either way, it's a choice.

We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in the darkness.

We may not understand the pathways God lays out before us. We may not even like walking the journey. But even in failure, we can trust that He’ll do more than we expect.

We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.