Sometimes the hardest thing to believe is not that God is present in the hard seasons. Sometimes the harder thing is trusting Him in the moments when nothing is going wrong…yet. When things feel steady, part of us is already bracing for the moment they won’t. Recently I noticed a familiar pattern in my own…

The gospel, simply explained Sometimes the most helpful thing we can do is keep things simple. Or, as we used to say in the 90’s, break it down Barney style. Some of you may not have even been born yet, so let me explain. Barney was a children’s show in the 90’s where a big…

Jesus doesn’t just like you. He delights in you. It’s easy for me to feel completely unlovable when I find myself making the same mistakes with my children again and again. My default mode is, “I’m not good enough for my kids, let alone God.” I remember a season when my husband traveled often for…

There is a version of the gospel many of us learned once and quietly set on a shelf. It saved us.It changed us.And then life got busy. Motherhood has a way of filling every empty space. Our minds are crowded with schedules, decisions, expectations, and the constant pressure to do enough and be enough. Somewhere…

Learning to trust God with what’s ahead “Therefore, stop worrying about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”Matthew 6:34 Last week, while walking and meditating on this verse, the Lord placed a word in my spirit: forecasting. To forecast is to predict what is coming next. And…