I paced the living room, trying to avoid the pantry and the fridge since I’ve learned they don’t really comfort me anyway. But this restlessness inside… I didn’t know what to do with it. There was a tightness in my chest, like the feeling I get when I should be working but I’m lingering on social media, a sense of …
Some days, you don’t even want to try. You don’t feel like getting out of bed, you don’t want to sit down with the Bible, you don’t even want to try to figure out what on God’s green earth to eat for breakfast. I get it. I feel that way sometimes, too. It’s easier to stay in bed, blinds closed, …
Have you ever done something that was crazy and scary but totally God-inspired? This week, my husband and I have been volunteering at our church’s VBS; he’s been playing guitar and I’ve been leading a small group of seventeen ten-year-olds. Ten. Years. Old. I was nervous, y’all. What do I know about being a ten-year-old? I mean, yeah, I was …
I had resigned myself to a lifetime of yo-yo diets, guilt, deprivation, shame, and defeat. “I guess this is my thorn in the flesh,” I’d sigh as I’d walk toward the dessert table at a baby shower. I envied the stick-thin women with crazy metabolisms who ate whatever they wanted and still looked like skinny teenagers. But even more I envied …
When I was in high school, I led worship with my little guitar and a band of other high schoolers. It was terrifying. It was exhilirating. It was one of the biggest steps of faith for this introvert girl to get on stage and lead others in praising the Father, because I felt like they were all picking me apart …
