Check out this teaching on YouTube, or keep reading! If I pause long enough to listen, I discover that my heart aches to belong. I also find that bitterness threatens to fill the space. Sometimes it seems like I’m on the outside looking in, observing all the seasons and places where we used to belong. … Continue reading Bitterness and Belonging
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Reality Check
What do you do when the wilderness gets wild? When it wears out its welcome? What do you do when the delay lingers? When the unknown remains a mystery? What do you do when you feel like you've circled this mountain long enough (but you're still stuck on it)? When you've been here before, and … Continue reading Reality Check
Feelings Matter
I want to give you permission to feel. To engage your emotions. To dig a little deeper. To press in. To find your true self. To not settle for living divided, but to pursue wholeness. I want to give you permission to befriend your feelings. To sit with them and ask questions. To discover why … Continue reading Feelings Matter
Walking With Light
Check out this week's teaching on YouTube, or keep reading! This week for #MusicMonday, Jon covered On the Road to Beautiful by Charlie Hall. On the surface it seems like a random throwback, but this song is dear to our hearts. It was one of the songs Jon played at a coffee shop show the … Continue reading Walking With Light
Peace
As Advent comes to a close, I've been reflecting on the fourth and final theme: peace. To me, peace is a result of assurance and trust. It's often quiet, still, silent. No matter what’s happening on the outside, I can have peace and wholeness on the inside. Even in uncertainty and in the face of … Continue reading Peace
Hope
"A thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices." This line from "O Holy Night" has been resonating in my heart recently. Even in our weariness we can rejoice, for there is a hope beyond our wildest dreams to cling to. During Advent, we prepare room in our hearts as we move toward Christmas. At Christmas, … Continue reading Hope
Lessons from the Wilderness
Click here for a video of this week's blog! Sometimes we find ourselves in the wilderness. Again. Another trek through. Or maybe it's more like we're going around in circles. (Is anyone else dizzy?) Did we not pass the test the first or second time? I thought the third time was supposed to be the … Continue reading Lessons from the Wilderness
My Race to Run 