As I look back over my mountains of growth and compare them to the molehills where I stagnated, community often made the difference.

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

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

I understand true life doesn't happen when I constantly gaze backwards, mulling over all the injustices others have done or I have done to others.

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

Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in and through us.

Growth comes from God, to those with surrendered, yielded hearts.