When Life is Hard

We are a broken people bumping around in a broken world. Being a follower of Jesus does not remove us from pain — even Jesus suffered. So how do we wade into hard stuff without drowning? How do we suffer well? How do we face challenges or loss differently in light of eternity? Let’s not bury pain, but let’s not give it mastery over us either. As believers in Jesus, we do not have to suffer alone, or without hope. We can grieve and be comforted.
When I Don’t Understand

When I Don’t Understand

I know that God is good. I know that he is brilliant. Brilliant. I know that he has eyes to see things we are not privy to. That he creates and restores, has plans and pursues. I also know that terrible tragedies and severe mercies exist. I know that while God has great plans for us, he also allows painful circumstances to play out. And somehow all of this can be true at the same time. Even though sometimes I don’t understand what his plans are, or why he allows it.

Eyes That See

Eyes That See

He sees value where we see poverty.  He sees success where we see struggles, he glorifies what we often ignore, condemns what we often worship, invites when we feel unworthy. He is unimpressed with and undistracted by shallow formality and consistently engages with clarity of vision into the person’s heart before him.

The Yoke and the Plow

The Yoke and the Plow

Exhaustion seems to be the undercurrent of our culture right now. COVID just reared up and blasted us over the last 2 years, and while there has certainly been a spectrum of loss, even on the best side of the swing there has been a cumulative ask that has diminished...

I just miss you

I just miss you

I have confidence with all of my capacity, to believe that there is life after death.  I believe that all of the hints and promises about what comes next, the glimpses gifted by God are true.  I believe that I will see my Mamaw and side by side worship and love and...

A New Song

A New Song

I cannot sing.  The first time I realized it I was about 9 and I recorded myself (on cassette tape) singing a clip from “The Little Mermaid.”  When I proudly sat my family down for them to hear it, I was shocked and horrified when I realized I was not, in fact, Amy...

Suffering Well

Suffering Well

We are in the midst of Holy Week.  The biggest popularity shift whiplash ever known in one week’s time.  And the impending purpose of The Announcement which was so formidably offered 33 years prior.  Regardless of what people believe about who Jesus was, nobody argues...

Breaking Point

Breaking Point

In the last few days I have heard 3 people who are dear to me use the phrase “I am at my breaking point.”  All for completely unique reasons and seasons of life demands.  And because I love them I am so grateful that they all have growing and vibrant relationships...

Forsaken

Forsaken

It means to be abandoned or deserted; which infers an interruption of sorts.  The one forsaken wasn’t alone to begin with.  My own instinct is to assume (in most cases) a devastating separation, or rejection.  Which is what caught my eye and compelled me to linger as...

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