So much of our lives are spent staring at closed doors… Sometimes I spend an inordinate amount of brain power trying to come up with plans of how I’ll succeed in life. You know, make my parents proud, leave a legacy for my kids, do something worthwhile with these fleeting moments. And more often than not, I work myself in a …
Want to know how to stop procrastinating? It’s easier than you think. Just one little step and you’ll be on your way… “Tomorrow,” I tell myself. “I’ll get my act together tomorrow. I’m just going to have one last bite of this chocolate cake… one more day of sleeping in… one more Netflix-binge… one more saunter into the alley of …
I’ve been feeling this moving in my soul for the last few months, a rustling of wind that’s barely felt, but just enough to make me stop and say, “Ok God, what are you trying to tell me?” And this, the most embarassing of revelations: that though I’ve been writing about pursuing real intimacy with God and pointing women to …
Jeremiah 29:11 had always been my favorite verse growing up. I clung to its promise of prosperity and good fortune like an pubescent girl with a bad case of acne and extra pounds around her thighs. I wrote the verse with a sparkly purple gel pen on yellow construction paper and hung it at the foot of my bed, so it was the …
Sometimes I feel like I’m grasping at straws, like I’ve run around trying to seize the day and make the most of it and live life to the fullest and every other cliched phrase ever spoken… but all I have to show for it are a few measly straws. “Buck up,” I tell myself. “Try harder. Wake up earlier. Stay up longer. Do more.” …
