willing spirit, weak flesh: on the journey of writing a book
I feel so limited, so weak, so unsure. I feel God has called me to write this book, and yet it seems like I am trying to swim upstream to attain the goal, to...
Category: faith + life
hard love
The last two and a half weeks I have been pushing myself a lot harder in my workouts. I’ve noticed I’ve gotten a lot stronger. I had been experiencing some physical pain in some...
a foggy horizon
My mom sent me this photo from our lakehouse in east Texas. Can you even tell what it is?! Maybe now that i said it, but man – how crazy is this sight? This...
holistically intertwined
This morning I took some time to start my week off in reflection – evaluating where i’m at in these areas of my life, knowing that they are all intertwined. We are holistic beings. One...
ashes, ashes
“ashes, ashes, we all fall down.” It’s a song we know from childhood – Ring Around the Rosie. I was curious as to the meaning or origin of this song, so I turned to good...
a sabbath year
I drafted this post on December 12, but with the busyness of the holidays I didn’t quite get to posting it. Life has a funny way of presenting me with the unexpected, God always...
pain for glory
“Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life.” It is those words of Jesus in John 9 that I heard...
rising above
I don’t have cancer. I’m not dying. I haven’t lost a limb or had any life-threatening surgeries. But I do have an incurable autoimmune disease. I was recently diagnosed with fibromyalgia. In one sense...
spend me
While Clay’s first trip as Director of Global Missions has come to an end, it is just the beginning of learning how to ask God to “spend me.” It’s a scary thing to do. And...
uncertain certainty
I won’t lie. I fear for Clay’s safety when he travels to far away, rural places for missions work. It’s not easy to pull away from a final embrace before he gets on a...
