I’ll never forget the day I heard my cousin read this verse from Psalm 139 to her children: “If I say, ’Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,’ even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.” (Psalm 139:11-12 NIV). She asked her boys, “If y’all are in a dark room, & you turn on a flashlight, what are you going to see?” They both piped in energetically, “The light!!” She said, ”That’s right boys, don’t you ever forget that the light is ALWAYS stronger than the darkness.” …
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I love remembering this verse as I get dressed in the mornings. So many days, I’m running around in the morning trying to figure out what to wear… these days... just a few days away from welcoming our 3rd kid into the world, most things don’t FIT, so it can be complicated, :) But what if instead of rushing about in a flurry of worrying about what…
Fighting Words Friday: Learning To Let Go
How many days do I walk around carrying worry, burdens, fears, and anxiety? SO many. I think it might be the illusion that if I just hang onto everything that is worrying or troubling me, that I’ll be able to control it. Meanwhile, God is right beside us with THE strongest/most capable arms, asking us to let go and trust Him…
Fighting Words Friday: Sufficient Grace
All the praise hands emojis for the promise that His grace is sufficient for us!! I don’t know where y’all have been lately or what you are walking through, but I’ve been in a season of refining, feeling weak, and feeling the weight of my shortcomings a lot of days. What a breath of fresh air to know that His grace is enough to cover all of my failures and weak places, and not only that...