When something doesn't feel right, and nothing makes sense, be still and Go to the center. My daughter has always been thin. When she was smaller she was underweight, but healthy. When she was in elementary school she used to love lunch every day. But there was a streak of about a month when her cafeteria balance doubled. My husband and I could not explain it because she did not change in size. We took her to the doctor and she came back with a clean bill of health. I asked h

Faith or fear. You must choose whether you are going to live in Faith or be ruled by fear. You cannot do both. No man can serve two masters. I know with everything going in the world with the coronavirus that you are tempted to devolve into a blubbering, fearful soul. But you were not made to rest or abide in fear. You were made in God's perfect image. Strong and capable. Smart and wise. Ready and able. When we feel fear it is not to be ignored. Rather it is to be acknowledge

When you don't want to do "this" anymore, don't fight it. God did not give us this life to feel pressed upon. It is a gift to be enjoyed. We live in the present. Right here, right now, to live in joy. I remember going to the doctor with the massive headache a few years ago. I had a boil on my side that really needed to be drained, but the doctor did not want to do it. He slit the abscess a little bit, pressed on it, and said, "Well, it's not ready" and sent me home. The next

Have you ever wondered why some people's prayers are answered immediately and others take more time? Even if the thing that one person asks for is simple, it (seems to) take forever, while another person asks for something huge and it's answered immediately. Why? It's not that any request is big or small. All requests to God are the same. Rather, our prayers are vibrations sent into the world. Some prayers are sent with a strong vibration and others are sent with a lesser fre

When the land is barren, it is empty, but it is not void. The difference is that empty means there is nothing growing. Void means that there is no opportunity to grow anything. Right now the land is empty. People are furloughed or laid off. Businesses are closed temporarily or permanently. But that also means that people are home and it is quiet. That means that there is now time to rest and consider next steps. That means that it is time to pray. Prayers are seeds that go in

One of the hardest lessons yet most liberating blessings I have ever embraced in my life is that the best thing that I could do to help anyone else was to help myself. It is so tempting to stop what we are doing to help someone else, even if what we are doing enables us to help more than one person. It is the stopping that diverts us in our attention from our mission and we get lost in the shuffle. During this COVID-19 crisis, our church has been very busy. My husband has bee

Who you used to be is of no consequence to who you are right now. You have made mistakes. You have done things you knew were wrong at the time you did them. You have said things that were totally out of line and you knew that when you said them. You have thought harsh thoughts about people who have done nothing but love and support you. And none of that matters right now. Right now you are the person who knows better. So go ahead and commit to do better. Your decision right n