Encouragement
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?”…
Read MoreTalking 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…
Read MoreWorry: 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…
Read MoreWorry: “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…
Read MoreWorry: 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,…
Read MoreWorry: 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…
Read MoreGuest 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…
Read MoreWhen It’s Hard to Let Your Guard Down
Book launches are a whirlwind of hashtags and giveaways! It’s crazy what our culture has come to. No longer do we call each other on the phone and chat about what happened last week. Now we see it in real time. It’s amazing, yet I think we lose something special in the process. We lose…
Read MoreAnchored In Is Here, Along with a Giveaway!
It’s been a journey up to this point and I’m praying it continues to be more of the same. For the past two years God has prompted my heart to put words on a page: not just any words, but words filled with His power. I don’t share this to try to prove to you…
Read MoreWhen My Life Is Full of Problems
“Rain, rain, go away. Come again another day.” “When it rains, it pours.” We’ve all been there drenched in life’s troubles. The waters rise and we think we can’t take one more thing and then, WHOOSH! In rolls the tide. It’s just the way it goes sometimes. We’ve been in a season like this over…
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