Allow me to take you back to a spring in my childhood—a day when the breeze still had that crisp freshness of past winter days, but the sun warmed it with a smile. Pollen coated everything in sight, and whenever the breeze really worked itself into a fuss, small clouds of yellow drifted by. There […]
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he […]
“You don’t need to breathe!” My coach yelled from across the pool in the middle of a set. My immediate thought was, “I beg to differ!”, but I could only suck in a couple more breaths before plunging beneath the water. I was in the middle of a conditioning exercise, one we completed at the […]
I’ve discovered three questions you can use to diagnose an ailing marriage. I would like to tell you I discovered these questions while completing my graduate degree in Marriage and Family Counseling, but the truth is, I discovered these questions while lying in a hospital bed.
It was warm, warmer than I like it to be. You would think after having lived in the South for the majority of my life I would be used to it, but I’m not. You see, I was trying to pray and I wanted to focus and the heat was making it difficult. It was […]
The enemy looks for weakness. With laser-sharp focus, he prowls around looking for even the tiniest crack or crevasse to break through. Once he finds these holes his darts begin to fly. If we allow those arrows to penetrate and get in, they can become strongholds. In her book, As Silver Refined, Kay Arthur gives […]