Do you ever wonder if your work matters? Like, you do the same thankless tasks day after day, and no one seems to notice or care? It’s easy to get discouraged, and even more, to stop doing the thing. Because who cares, right? God cares. Scripture tells us that the fruit of the Spirit is… faithfulness. Because God is faithful, and He’s …
Would people who know you describe you as “gentle”? Ugh. That’s a tough question, isn’t it? Our world doesn’t value gentleness. Quite the opposite. We see brashness, contentiousness, and strife on display not just in Hollywood and Capitol Hill, but sadly in the Church as well. The world and its desires has slowly infiltrated many of our hearts. In fact, it’s …
If you were to choose one song to sum up the past 18 months, what would it be? Mine, hands down, is Goodness of God. These lyrics get me every time: All my life You have been faithful. All my life You have been so SO good! with every breath that I am able, I’m going to sing of the goodness …
Self-control. Sigh. It’s a word we’ve been talking about a lot in our home lately, and not just because summer means ice cream season. It’s because self-control (and the lack of self-control) affects every part of us: from our food choices to our word choices, to our media choices, to our relational choices, and everything in between. For some of …
Do you struggle to find joy in the hard places? Perhaps it seems more like a dream to have this deep-rooted happiness that’s unshaken regardless of headlines or circumstances? As I shared last week, it’s been a rough couple of weeks here in the Ciuciu household. I don’t think we’ve quite fully recovered from COVID. And it’s been heartbreaking here …
