When People Hurt Your Heart
If you are visiting from Encouragement for Today, thank you for stopping by! If you missed the devotion, you can find it HERE.
Can We Really Cast All Our Anxiety?
My heart literally feels broken in two. It’s a physical result of emotional strain. Maybe you know the feeling. Life happens, and it hurts. So you take deep breaths to try to release it, but no form of meditation or deep breathing exercise seems to release the grip that anxiety holds behind the breast bone. If you could reach deep inside and give the heart a tender massage it might respond and relax, but other than that, it just feels painful. What do we do in these seasons of struggle? Do we press on and hope for brighter days? Do
Foster Care – The First Night
I don’t think anything can prepare you for the first call. You can take the classes, fill out paper work for months, prepare your home and heart, but when the phone rings, everything stops. The voice on the other end of the phone line was serious and matter of fact. “Can you take a placement?” In this moment the word placement seemed so sterile, so cold. We were talking about a child. A warm little body whose life is about to be ripped apart from everything they know. There was no question of yes or no, but then she said,
Cancer Changes Us
Life is a roller coaster. Cancer takes the ride to a whole new level. Just when you think the ride is slowing down, a rushing force can take you to a place of complete shock and terror. This has been the roller coaster I’ve been riding since the calendar changed to 2018. Just when I thought I had faced some of the most unknown, most difficult things a person can face, more unknowns where ushered in and snatched the breath from my lungs. So I gasped and I pleaded with God for answers, for clarity, as I did all I
Talking to Jesus Book Review
Talking to Jesus is a new book by Jeannie Blackmer. You can find out more about Jeannie HERE. In her new book Talking to Jesus, Jeannie takes the conversations Jesus had with the people in the book of Matthew and shows us how each of these conversations could be giving us some insight on how to “pray” or talk to God. Jeannie cleverly describes each interaction with Jesus to take us back in real time to the streets where Jesus walked. We are able to imagine what it must have been like to be the leper, or the woman with
Worry: The Big Time Waster and How to Get Rid of It
If you missed previous posts in the series, you can find them here: Week 1 – Worry: It’s a Real Thing Week 2 – Worry: One Simple Change Week 3 – Worry: “What If” vs “What Is” Sometimes when God calls us to do something for Him, we get caught up in the details and begin to feel like we aren’t qualified to accomplish the goal. It seems too big, too far out of reach, and too impossible. So we quit because we become overwhelmed with worry over the details that we can’t quite figure out. I’ve been there consumed
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