"When I am still, I sometimes can feel a gentle breeze blowing softly into my soul."
-Larry Crabb
Can you remember the last time you were completely and utterly still? Besides the few hours of sleep you get every night, how much of your day is spent
Sadly, the world we live in glamorizes and idolizes perfection, constantly telling us lies that we aren't enough. You are not thin enough. You’re not pretty enough. You’re not creative enough. You’re not smart enough. Your hair isn’t colored enough, think enough, long enough. Your
Have you ever been devastated? I mean really, really heartbroken? Deep in a valley?
I have. Its scary. It’s dark. It’s lonely. It’s terrifying, really.
And each time I’ve been there, in that scary, heartbroken place, I always wonder: Why me? Why on earth would this happen
Oh, LOVE. Not only a word, but a force, a fire, filled with power—able to lift us to the heights of joy, and drop us into the depths of sorrow—to transform a reality, and change a life.
Love has existed since the beginning of time, and
When I was in high school, I carried myself with too much confidence. While I didn’t see it that way at the time, I now know that my confidence was rooted in pride, rather than a strong grasp of my own value and worth.
Years later
Sometimes it is hard to know how to start a conversation with God.
For some of us, "prayer" has perhaps been a part of our daily lives since we were young. But for others, we just started exploring spirituality, and the idea of God seems overwhelming,
When I was just starting out on my own and had to begin grocery shopping for myself, my mother warned me many times not to enter a grocery store on an empty stomach. She knew that if I went to the store hungry, I would
Everyone believes in something. Whether its in themselves, their career, a loved one, a religious system, or a god(s). What we sometimes forget is that what others believe is perhaps just as real or important to them as our belief system is to us. Often
