How to Find More Treasure in the Dark Season. Let’s be honest. There are days when walking with Jesus doesn’t feel like victory songs and mountaintops. It feels like dragging your feet through gravel with lungs that can’t quite catch a full breath. Faith isn’t shiny in those moments; it’s Read more
Finding Joy When Life Doesn’t Go as Expected When I first began writing Empty Nest Blessed: 60 Days to Finding Joy in the Empty Nest, I had no idea just how personal the message of joy in every season would become to me. I thought I was writing to encourage Read more
How to Keep a Beautiful Melody of Hope Do you have a song playing through your mind right now? My husband always has one, and as he moves about the house, he is usually singing a tune. Often, the one running through my head is prompted by the one he Read more
How to Hold Onto Hope When Doctors Find Cancer. “We found cancer.” The words no one wants to hear jolted me, and I was thankful to be sitting down. The doctor’s expression was grave as she reported that my routine colonoscopy revealed a malignancy in my colon. After kindly giving Read more
Revealing Hope in the Midst of an Awesome Storm Psychologists have come up with lists of ‘stressors’ that can cause serious emotional crisis in individuals’ lives, and how those affect us, physically, mentally, and emotionally. Ranking in the top 5 are the loss of a parent, the loss of a Read more
How to Find Wonderful Victory When Suffering Severely Isaiah 43:2 “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set Read more
Timely Words of Hope in the Darkest of Days What do you do when the world feels too dark to hope? I was only sixteen when my hope shattered overnight. It was a beautiful spring evening, and I fell asleep at my parents’ house. Then, at 2 a.m., a knock Read more
Five Scriptures That Bring Hope When Life Feels Impossible. Have you ever whispered, “I can’t do this anymore”? I have. Some seasons in life feel as if they will never end. When we feel pressed up against a wall with no clear way over or around it. But there is Read more