How to Plan the Perfect Quiet Time When I was a child I was obsessed with perfection. To say I was a perfectionist would have been an understatement. My brain could not do any type of work unless my entire room was cleaned and straightened up. Over the years I’ve slowly been letting go (painfully) of being perfect. The road hasn’t been easy, and still I have days where I get anxious about messes in my home. This perfectionism also…
Four Steps to Intimacy With God Loneliness lies to us. We are all alone and no one cares. Loneliness lies to us. Everyone has left us. Loneliness lies to us. God does not hear me when I pray. Loneliness lies to us. My faith is weak and my heart will always ache. Instead of listening to the lies, what if we let loneliness lead us to intimacy? What if we turned this time into a season filled with fruit? God…
Five Truths You Need Everyday Truth. I need to speak it because my heart is so prone to lies. Not my lies, the enemy’s lies. The heartache, the sorrow, the grief, the hard parts of life all will say these lies to our heart: You don’t matter. You are alone. You can’t do this. You are forgotten. You will never succeed. What combats lies? We know this. Truth. Truth overcomes lies every time. Sometimes it is so hard to remember…
3 Truths About Loneliness from the Bible I’m fine. When people ask you how you are, you say FINE. You say it with a smile. The tears behind the Instagram filters should never show and are washed away in the shower each morning. You don’t say you’re lonely. You don’t say that you go home to a cat and spend hours not saying a word to anyone else. You don’t say your kitchen table is covered with bills, clean clothes,…