If you’re visiting from Encouragement for Today, welcome! When I wrote the piece shared today, it was months before the current pandemic changed many aspects of our lives. Church doors were still open, our family still saw friends on a regular basis, and my children attended public school. Today, our circumstances are completely different, and I find myself needing to cling to the truths I wrote in Shift: Changing Our Focus to See the Presence of God more than ever. God Continue Reading
When Your Efforts Feel Small: The Power of Showing Up
A few years ago, a car almost hit my husband and firstborn son. They walked toward our vehicle after a baseball game, and a woman backing up didn’t see them. My husband picked up our son, moving him out of the car’s path, and braced himself for impact. Thankfully, the woman saw them at the last second. She jumped out of her car, hysterical and apologizing. My husband remained calm and told her they were okay, not wanting to add to her already panicked state. They drove away from that Continue Reading
Those Beautiful Friends Who Pursue Us
“Yep, I could hang out with you.” I chuckled at my new friend’s words. We’d just met a few weeks ago and our families were having lunch for the first time. She seemed so confident in our budding relationship. When my husband and I had moved cross-country nearly a year ago, I was pregnant with our first child. So my friend and I talked about babies as my belly bulged beneath the table. I was due the following month and the idea of welcoming a newborn with no family nearby terrified me. With Continue Reading
