Summer is JUST around the corner! Can you believe it? I feel like in Michigan we’ve skipped spring this week and went straight to summer. Anyone else feel that way where you live? With the nice weather, we’ve been outside a whole lot more, playing ball, taking walks, all the things. At one point I…
Whether you are a parent, grandparent, or are simply around kids, I’m sure you’ve thought about this phrase: teachable moment. That time when a child does something and you want to call them out on it in frustration, but want to do so in a graceful way, you see it as a more “teachable moment”…
We are constantly surrounded by voices. We are constantly being inundated with messages from the radio. Facebook. Any social media for that matter. From people around us. Billboards. Advertisers. Stores telling us what we need. Pinterest telling us what’s in style. Our faces are being smacked with what we should be doing, wearing, saying, and…
Life is meant to be savored. To be enjoyed completely. But how do we savor life when life maybe doesn’t look like we want it to or how we expected it to? I believe it all comes down to our choices. The daily choices we make. The daily choices we make that make up our…
Praying is the easy part…the waiting is not. I often find myself praying about something to release the worry, but then minutes later, am thinking about it again. Telling God all of my troubles is one thing, but it’s the waiting and wondering after, that is the hard part. I can trust God when I…
Did you ever consider that you were created to display God’s strength? That mountain you are climbing, that season of life you are in, did you ever wonder if God is using it to strengthen not only your own faith, but the faith of others? We have spent years praying that God would take away…
