Do you know that feeling of a restless heart? Sometimes we experience it even though life isn’t too bad. Things are good, but we just can’t shake the feeling that something is missing or needs to be fixed. We’ve lost our joy. We’re not happy. The things that used to be fulfilling are not.… Read More Let God Settle Your Restless Heart
We Need to Belong God gave us the desire to belong to something or someone or a plural of someones. He’s a God of relationship, and we were made in His image. Even at fifty-two there is a little girl in me who wants to belong. I’m also acutely aware of others who want to… Read More You Belong: Three Ways to Find Your Tribe
How young were you the first time you experienced rejection? Personally, I know rejection entered my life at a very young age, probably in kindergarten. But my first vivid memory of this painful human experience happened in middle school. Jason Smith asked me to “go” with him, and I told him I had to… Read More How to Handle Rejection
The struggle is real. Our identity is so important to us, but it’s hard to capture our true self in a world constantly telling us who we should be. Rather than who we are in Christ, we let the mirror be our judge, or our circumstances, or the scale. When we were kids we found… Read More Identity Crisis: You Are So Much More than You Think
A Way to Pray When You’re Stuck Have you been so frustrated facing problem after problem (after problem) that you couldn’t find words to cry out to God, so you quit praying? Has an illness snuffed out the fire of your faith, and prayer seems a vain attempt to be heard, so, you quit trying?… Read More Scripture to Pray When Everything is Going Wrong
