Choosing faith over fear in the everyday...
This post on Self-love is a follow up to a blog post I did recently on my thoughts about self-help. The journey from self-love to Jesus-love My long walk to peace of mind wasn’t about loving myself, but rather, someone loving me. The prevalent message I found in self-help was to find fulfillment and peace through self-love. However, the problem with this… Read More
I know what you’re thinking, “Wow, hate is a strong word for something meant to be so helpful.” Yeah, it is. But when you’ve looked for healing somewhere only to find out you were being duped, you’d hate it too. For most of my adult life, I’ve been drawn with an unexplainable magnetism to the “self-help” section of the book… Read More
How can I be a Christian and still struggle with… (*Fill in the blank.) When I first began writing this post, it was meant to be about the struggle with fear and being a Christian. But after I thought about it, I realized that even if you don’t struggle with anxiety, you still struggle with something, and more than likely,… Read More
Recently my family and I went on a hike where part of the trail was an old railroad track. We walked along, board by board where the sunlight and shadows trickled through the trees, falling upon our shoulders and then spilling down onto the tracks. About halfway through our journey, we turned a corner only to meet up with an enormous… Read More
Making peace with your enemy The slate-colored sky surrounded the endless meadows on either side of the road as my Toyota sliced through the frigid afternoon air—ask anyone who lives in the Pacific Northwest, it’s all gray and green until sometime in June. I was headed North after an entire day away at a conference. Alone. Just the ashen sky… Read More
There are days where God’s grace is enormous and I feel it all around me. And then there are the days where it’s nowhere to be found—well, at least I can’t feel it. The former are the days I desperately want to hoard grace for the latter. Oh, never heard of grace hoarding, you say? Maybe it’s not a thing…. Read More
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