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This blog was originally posted in 2016 but is still a pertinent message from Cherie Hurt for today. I used to write just as much as I breathed—or at least that’s what it felt like. I would go to bed with my next blog post in mind. I would often find myself scribbling notes across […]

I am a doer, a task-oriented person. I like to make a list and check things off. In fact, I ‘m so bad that sometimes if I do something and it’s NOT on my list, I write it down just so I can have the satisfaction of checking it off. Do you ever grow weary of […]

From the moment we are born we are instilled with the quality to love others. Wide-eyed infants in need of nourishment, we associate love with the comfort of another individual. Oh, to be a child again and feel what it’s like to love others with nothing holding you back! No judgment, no hatred, no record […]

The Father is reminding me to “love better” everywhere I turn. Most recently the reminder has come in Ephesians 5:1-2, “Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.” But what does it mean to walk in love? […]

One morning when I was a young girl, I was helping my mom unload the dishwasher and I dropped one of the glass cups. I can remember the way it shattered across the floor and we paused. Embarrassment and worry flooded me, I felt the heavy weight of failure pressing on me and moved to […]

Silence. Do you ever crave it, wondering just what secrets lie in its wake? Sometimes, I find myself wishing for the pause of a moment, for the simple elegance of bliss. That sort of feeling when for once you don’t have to wake up to an alarm, but rather to the silence of a room […]

In life we have innumerable choices we can make. Some are important and others are simpler—yet one of the most important is how we choose to respond to life’s circumstances. I will be the first to tell you that I was the emotional child of the family—the kid who made sure the entire house knew […]

I’m a visual person. But not in the way you’re thinking. Perhaps there is a term for it that I’m unaware of—but my form of visual learning comes through words that create pictures. It is no shock to me as I tend to view and see things in this way. Perhaps it is a way […]

“I want to be broken over the sins of my heart. I wish I grieved over them more—even the little sins.” A friend said this to me recently and I have been pondering her words ever since. She was concerned about the casualness of her heart toward those sins we deem “small.” Her reasoning? Not […]

But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again. In fact, the water I will give him will become a well of water springing up in him for eternal life.” – John 4:14 (CSB) I stare at the mess, dreading the next several hours of my day. The laundry […]