It was a few months out from the death of my father, when out on a date with my husband, shopping for shirts, I came across one that looked just like one of my dad’s. My overwhelming sorrow over losing him came back to me, fresh as if it had just happened. The joy of
Does Christmas feel hard this year? You may be putting on a brave face for others, but inside you feel sorrowful, lonely, or maybe even depressed because of the circumstances in your life. However, you can find Christmas hope this year despite what you are going through. God sees your pain. He sees how hard
Instead of asking yourself what pleases God, do you instead feel like you are trapped in a cycle of seeking the approval of others? When someone is mad at you or doesn’t like you, it can tear you up inside; getting them to like you again is all you can think about. Your happiness depends
Are you striving to be perfect in all things? Your job, parenthood, your role as a spouse or friend? Being a Christian? This is extremely exhausting and the weight is so cumbersome. I know… because this is something that I have struggled with for years. If you are saying this is you too, you are
Are you fighting with someone in your church? Maybe you disagree with how they feel about an issue, or you are mad about how they treated you or what they said to you. Sometimes, we don’t even tell the person at church we are angry at them or that they hurt us. But doing nothing
Recently, I went on a trip to visit my family and met an extended family member for the first time. Although he didn’t speak English, his actions spoke louder than words. He was so welcoming, helpful, and warm; he simply loved me, my family and everyone around him so much. Watching him, it made me
Do you feel like you’re going through a period of time when you’ve lost the ability and desire to do things? Maybe you feel like you’re struggling to move forward in life… but instead finding yourself often feeling hopeless and sorrowful. I went through this recently, after suffering the loss of a dear loved one.
Are you in pain right now and in need of comfort? Maybe you have experienced loss and are grieving; or in great physical pain; or dealing with conflict in relationships; or having financial hardships. Whatever you are walking through, I want you to know that God’s perfect comfort is available. There are words of comfort
Have you suffered the loss of a loved one and don’t know how to deal with your grief? Sometimes it feels like you just want to cry all the time and don’t even want to get out of bed to face the world. Doing normal things just feels so hard. To begin, I just want
Are you allowing your mistakes to hold you back? Do you lay awake at night, replaying the wrong things you did or said? You don’t have to obsess over your mistakes when you know the grace of Jesus because there is no condemnation in Christ (Romans 8:1). The grace of Jesus is a gift to
My goal is to help and equip Christians like you to live for Jesus by following Matthew 22:37-39: to love God and love people, and within this we need to learn how to love ourselves as God does.
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