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A while back I was reading a devotional by Lysa TerKeurst where she wrote, “Following the rules and following Jesus are two totally different things.” Once I read that statement, I immediately wished I had read it ten, fifteen, or even twenty years earlier.
Read MoreA couple of years ago when I was visiting my parents, my little sister Danielle came by the house and brought the five kids she was nannying with her. (Yes, I said five kids. And did I mention they were all under the age of 10 at the time? Clearly my sister is a special kind of human.)
Read MoreI’ve been going back through a lot of my old journals recently, and as I flipped through the pages yesterday, I stumbled upon an entry from early 2022. I had decided first thing that morning to get up and go for a walk, which wasn’t something I normally did, but apparently, I needed to get some fresh air and spend some time outside - away from my phone, away from work, away from all the things that were overwhelming and demanding.
Read MoreJesus knows exactly what you’re feeling and thinking right now. When you’re wondering why you have to go through what you’re going through, why things aren’t turning out the way you want them to, and why your plan and God’s plan can’t be the same thing, He gets it. He understands, because He’s been there. And when you’re enduring a difficult circumstance, don’t you want to be encouraged by someone who’s endured the same thing?
Read MoreI truly believe one of the greatest inventions in the entire beauty industry is dry shampoo. Can I get a witness? That stuff is a game changer. Back when I was in middle school and high school, I had to wash my hair almost every day. If I did skip a day, I ran the risk of my hair looking oily and gross by fifth period on the day after I washed my hair, and that was not a risk I often chose to take.
Read MoreJohn 6 is a pretty popular chapter in John’s gospel because it talks about the miracle of Jesus feeding the 5,000 and His miracle of walking on water on the Sea of Galilee. It’s a pretty jam-packed chapter. And while I have heard the stories of these miracles several times in my life, something new stuck out to me as I was reading this chapter the other day.
Read MoreI’ve always been a big fan of journaling. In fact, I’ve kept a diary since I was five years old, even though at that time, all I had to write about were my kindergarten boyfriend and what make-believe games my little brother and I had played that day. Regardless, I’ve always loved writing in a journal. It’s the way I like to process my thoughts and get everything that’s going on in my brain onto a piece of paper.
Read MoreI once heard someone ask the question, “If you knew God was holding your hand every step of the way, what would you do and where would you go?” At the time that I first heard it, it was a question that stopped me in my tracks because, for a while, I had been operating out of a mindset of fear and hesitation. I was dealing with a lot of worry and uncertainty as some big changes were happening in my life, and I was scared of what those changes were going to bring.
Read MoreWhen my husband and I first moved to Kentucky last year, we lived in an apartment for six weeks before we could move into the house we purchased. And because it was such a temporary living situation, we decided to unpack as little as possible while we were there.
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