Worry: “What If” vs. “What Is”
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 The “what if” questions of life are hard, heavy, and honestly difficult to ask. Yet so often we live our lives beneath these questions and never say them out loud. What if they never get better? What if I never get that job? What if I never feel valuable? What if I never have a child? What if I never accomplish that goal? What if I never get married? What if my
Worry: One Simple Change
If you missed the first post in the series, you can find it here: Week 1 – Worry: It’s a Real Thing I bolted from my room as the fire alarm sounded and I rushed to the bedrooms where my children lay sleeping. When the fire alarm goes off in the middle of the night, there’s really nothing like it. The heart-pounding result is incomparable. First thought – my kids! My husband made the command, “Stay here with the children, and I will check out the house!” I stood at the top of the steps trembling, blinking quickly trying to
Worry: It’s a Real Thing
Worry. It’s the jaw-clenching, gut-wrenching, heart-pounding thing that makes you wonder what life will hold next. It’s the fear over what you said yesterday, or what will happen tomorrow. It’s the ache in the pit of your stomach that won’t give up, and the wrinkles in your forehead that can’t relax. It’s real. And it’s wreaking havoc on our souls one day at a time. What do we do when worry sabotages our peace and makes us feel like we can’t move? It’s paralyzing at its best, and completely consuming at its worst. We know it’s coming because it’s just
Guest Post: I Will Miss the Mountains
I am thrilled to welcome Sarah Frazer to encourage us with a guest post today! Her new devotional, Coming Home: Finding God as Our Dwelling Place, is available now. One of the best parts of my state is the change of seasons. Each season is so distinct, unique and beautiful in its own way. West Virginia is not portrayed accurately in politics, history, social media, news, or Hollywood. (Is any state rightly represented, though?) I’ve always been proud to be from West Virginia (not western Virginia – we are a separate state). Neither North or South, we find ourselves in-between.
3 Ways to Avoid Depression
Two years ago I shared my journey through some of the darkest days of my life. I gave you the inside scoop of what it looked like to be depressed and a pastor’s wife. It sounds so ugly when I put that way, but those words don’t seem to fit too well all in the same sentence. If you missed it, you can find the series here. Today, I’m living a different life. It’s a beautiful one that doesn’t go very close to that darkness we call depression. It’s not because I’m never tempted to sink back beneath the surface,
5 Ways to Experience God Today
It’s easy to search Google and get answers to your hardest questions. The crazy part is, we actually believe most of what we read on the internet especially if it’s one of the top five hits on our Google search. Experiencing God and His power is more than what a search engine can offer. It has little to do with SEO and more to do with the soul. Read His Word. We all know we should read the Bible, but when life gets busy, it’s one of the first things to go. The older I get, the more I am
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