Finding Jesus in the messy, mundane, and miraculous.
One of my good friends titled it that: Summer of Dreams. We are at this fun place in our lives where we have some freedom, maybe a few extra dollars, hopes, goals and well, dreams. So we bought season passes to the theme park, we spent a weekend in Steamboat, and are doing our best […]
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I want to carry it all for you: the doubt, the pain, the heartache, and the anger. I want to believe in Him enough for us all. I’m going to try.
Read MoreI spent this past week at home in my beautiful state of Oregon – we boated, kayaked, waterfalled (I think that can be a verb). We roasted s’mores in the backyard, waited in anticipation for the Butte to catch on fire from fireworks (it’s tradition), and ate a lot of watermelon. All in all, a […]
Read MoreGlass half full, or glass half empty? I want to be a total optimist. I want to believe the best about God, people, life, and this world. It is really hard sometimes, isn’t it? I think I am somewhat bent towards cynicism and pessimism naturally. My journey has been a fight to have hope and […]
Read MoreHe is well pleased in you – do you believe that? You bring a smile to His face. No matter what temptation you may have fell prey to in the past, you are His beloved child.
Read MoreIn the everyday living it is easy to make the Gospel about something less; we find ways to make it about qualification, rules, comparison, us verses them.
Sometimes I think though, at the end of the day, or especially at the end of life, it isn’t about those things. Which means it really never is about those things. The Gospel at the end of the day is about life.
Read MoreDo you ever feel like you have to paste on a new face, become someone less than you are in order to impress or fit in?
Read MoreI have spent the past week in Chicago at a conference for Christians in student development. I have loved learning and thinking about my role, and listening to people teach about it who are really good at what they do. It has made me, more than think about what I do, ponder who I want […]
Read MoreWhen I finally find a time to slow down, to let my soul catch up with my schedule, I always come back to this question: What will your story be?
Read MoreAnd the reality is that when I don’t spend time with Him I don’t have anything good in me, and I don’t have anything good to say.
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this life's blessings 