Inspirational

it takes strength

It takes something extraordinary to let go of what you love and seek no substitutes.

When a fever still rages, we tend to choose the remedy over the redemption. But it’s as healthy as settling for bandages with a bullet in your chest. You don’t just need someone to stop the bleeding; you need a surgeon to get the metal out. You need to stop struggling. You need to scab and scar and heal. You need to let someone else take over and trust them, trust Him, to provide.

Inspirational

how to shine as a light to the world

Jessica Telian 3 Minute Read

Is it really that simple? We have all these ideas about how to shine as a light to the world. Dress a certain way, read certain books, do this, do that. But in Philippians, Paul tells us it’s more what we don’t do.

how I pray for my brothers

Katie 5 Minute Read

My heart broke as I watched him walk away. Lord, why? Why am I here in this place? Why are you showing me this? I feel as if my hands are tied. I would fight this battle for him I could, but I’m left to only fight alongside him in a way that feels far…

Oh, Jerusalem

Elisabeth Adams 4 Minute Read

Oh Jerusalem, you’ve given me so much this weekend: adventure, good fellowship, a sun-burned nose, and a heart-full for pondering.

first

Elisabeth Adams 3 Minute Read

I can’t keep procrastinating on trust. If I can’t trust Jesus with this unwanted, anticlimactic, homely, nubbly, little faith-tester of a circumstance (whatever it happens to be today), I won’t be ready to trust Him tomorrow with something more grandiose. Either I trust Him, or I don’t. Right here is where the rubber meets the road.

A Year of Not Trying Any Harder

Caroline Rose Sanders 3 Minute Read

As last year came to a close, I did feel that sweet sorrow of closing a familiar book, but the stronger emotion was definitely regret.

There is nothing sweet about regret. Regret is bitter and unhelpful. Yet looking back at my last year’s goals and resolutions only increased the bitterness…

this new year

Chantel 3 Minute Read

I don’t really know what Twenty-Twelve is going to look like. Sometimes that both thrills me and terrifies me a little. But now, in the dawning of this new year, these are the kinds of things things I want to choose. I can’t change circumstances, but I can choose to find beauty and to trust Him with the future. This is where I want my focus.

While Shepherds Watched

Chantel 2 Minute Read

Cool and clear was the night
That shepherds watched their sheep;
Up in fields on yonder hills,
While in the valley Bethlehem lay asleep…

A Pleasant Advent-ure

Caroline Rose Sanders 4 Minute Read

My mother was in her chair in the living room, laptop on her lap and stacks of books at her feet when she looked up at me with an expression of desperation.

“I’m too Protestant for this!” she cried.

This year, for the first time, my family is celebrating Advent..

Great Things and Giving Thanks

Chantel 3 Minute Read

It is the golden days and cool nights that speak of endings — and of new beginnings yet to be seen — that make me stop and look back as I look forward. It is in looking back that I find…

Serving and Savoring

Caroline Rose Sanders 3 Minute Read

Over the years, my family has celebrated Thanksgiving in a variety of ways. There was the year that my dad’s job had us commuting back and forth from our home in Central Texas to an apartment in Hartford, Connecticut. We ate turkey sandwiches at a rest stop (and didn’t mind one bit, if I recall)….

“Great Things He Has Done…”

Chantel 3 Minute Read

There’s a little tradition that happens each November, and I think you should know about it too. It is called GreaThings and it is one of my favorite parts of blogging in November! For the two weeks preceding American Thanksgiving day, a small group of friends join together to take a look over the year…

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