Chili and cornbread is my go-to meal in the fall. It’s easy, it feeds many, and most ingredients can be kept on hand in the event that you have an unexpected guest. But best of all, it’s almost impossible to mess up. This is good news for a girl like me. I’ve been known to […]
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Where to Find Lasting Faith
There is a cool and unwavering confidence I sense from people who have walked closely with God for decades longer than I have. It’s like speaking to someone about a mutual friend whom they happen to know far more intimately than I do. And after walking so closely with him they know his character, they […]
The Disintegrating Hope of Vanity
Her silence was deafening. We sat in the middle of a crowded coffee shop, enveloped in a chorus of slurping coffee drinkers and cackling carpool moms, yet all I could hear was her silence. The expressionless stare on her face told me everything. I had been found out. There is a lot of thoughtful work […]
!["We [can] walk into the future in God-glorifying confidence, not because the future is known to us but because it is known to God." - Kevin DeYoung
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Past lessons always have a way of proving to be a mercy. The other day I ran across some words that I scribbled out in the midst of what felt like a desperate season:
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“I've had a white-knuckled grip on my desire to know what's next. This year has been filled with changes, some invited changes, others not as much. With each detour, delay, set back, or loss I'd like to say that my faith propelled me to hope and trust. But most days I clung to my need for answers, stability, and control...
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The fact of who God is is the only thing that can provide peace in the midst of a world where there are a million possibilities at every second. If he is who he says he is, there is all the comfort in the world. But as I've walked this Christian walk for almost a decade now, I've come to realize that comfort only truly comes when I know who he says he is in his word. Knowing him and studying his words has proven to be the overwhelming necessity of my life.”
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Today was a sweet reminder for me that God never waists pain. That season of my life felt so hard at the time but in hindsight I see that it was a grace to endure and so helpful for what he’s called me to today. What I’m learning by experience: God is always up to doing a million incredible things in the midst of hard days, unexpected pain, and long seasons of wanting. He has proven over and over that he is indeed who he says he is and because of that there is only reason to hope.](http://scontent-lga3-1.cdninstagram.com/vp/e97c79da4cfc1b60b3b23e71e47395f7/5DB4DAFA/t51.2885-15/sh0.08/e35/s640x640/67416284_234165930877020_8901928364753979419_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-1.cdninstagram.com "\"We [can] walk into the future in God-glorifying confidence, not because the future is known to us but because it is known to God.\" - Kevin DeYoung
.
Past lessons always have a way of proving to be a mercy. The other day I ran across some words that I scribbled out in the midst of what felt like a desperate season:
.
.
.
“I've had a white-knuckled grip on my desire to know what's next. This year has been filled with changes, some invited changes, others not as much. With each detour, delay, set back, or loss I'd like to say that my faith propelled me to hope and trust. But most days I clung to my need for answers, stability, and control...
.
The fact of who God is is the only thing that can provide peace in the midst of a world where there are a million possibilities at every second. If he is who he says he is, there is all the comfort in the world. But as I've walked this Christian walk for almost a decade now, I've come to realize that comfort only truly comes when I know who he says he is in his word. Knowing him and studying his words has proven to be the overwhelming necessity of my life.”
.
.
.
Today was a sweet reminder for me that God never waists pain. That season of my life felt so hard at the time but in hindsight I see that it was a grace to endure and so helpful for what he’s called me to today. What I’m learning by experience: God is always up to doing a million incredible things in the midst of hard days, unexpected pain, and long seasons of wanting. He has proven over and over that he is indeed who he says he is and because of that there is only reason to hope.")
