As the month of November comes to a close, we can reflect back on a month of FAITH. Faith isn’t just free-falling into the unknown. Faith is more of a settled calm. An assurance, not in our future, but the God who lives with us. A God who never fails.  Faith isn’t trusting only during the good times, but the bad times as well. Instead of looking at the impossible and asking God to move, ask God to come in and remind…

Genesis 15:1, 5-6 – “After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: ‘Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great….And he {God} brought him outside and said, ‘Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.’ Then he {God} said to him, ‘So shall your offspring be.’ And he {Abram} believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness.” Abraham waited for his…

Work. Work. Work. The secret to working hard is…. 1. Don’t sleep. 2. Give up fun things. 3. Add more things to your list. Are you still reading? Good. Because I have to confess, no one needs to read about getting more work completed. Or giving up sleep to get it all done. We do that fine by ourselves. Instead, we need encouragement to slow down and to be at peace. Maybe that’s why so many popular articles are focused on rest. Rightly so, I…

“You said I could only have one cookie! Now you are giving me two. That’s not what you said.” My oldest son complained last night to my husband.  Yes, complained because we gave him two cookies instead of two!? His tone suggested he was upset with us. We were a little annoyed. Even though two cookies are better than one, it wasn’t what we had said. He wasn’t complaining as much as commenting on our character. We didn’t live up to…