10 Morning Psalms

A few months ago my husband’s job shifted slightly. Instead of being at work at 8am, he had to be at work at 6am. This meant he wanted to go to bed earlier. I am naturally a morning person, so when he started getting up early I would as well.  Changing our routine was forced upon us because of his job, but I have come to love my morning time, which led me to discover 10 morning psalms.  Each day…

How to Have Hope Again

How to have hope again…. The darkness often seems too dark. In the middle of the winter months, especially here in the hills of Appalachia, my heart sometimes aches with the darkness all around. The nights have been especially cold as well, and for someone who battles seasonal depression each year it is hard to have hope.  Have you ever felt like hope was a joke?  Me too. But, you and I are not alone. Hope is not a joke…

O Come, All You Unfaithful

O Come, All You Unfaithful When I first heard ​this song​, “O Come, All You Unfaithful,” four years ago I was undone. It was the perfect song for my heartache during Christmastime. It was 2020. Four years later, I’ve experienced a lot more heartache and sadness. The hardest part is that the world still seems so broken. When my playlist randomly landed on this song I began to weep. The words start out this way:  O come, all you unfaithful…

Three Ways We Grow While Life Feels Stuck

Three Ways We Grow While Life Feels Stuck In 2015 we brought a little girl home from China whose special needs were not what we had planned. It took months (years?) for us to see God’s hand in all of that. We walk away from that adoption experience with a stronger faith.  I can say that now, but at the time it was not evident that anything (let alone faith) was even growing. Isn’t that like how things grow anyway?…