To be honest? Resting is not something that I’m very good at. I am much more prone to busy, to filling the calendar to the brim, to worrying, to trying to “fix” things for myself and for others. I’m not great at sabbath, at turning things over to His care, at leaning on His strength…

I LOVE this verse and how it talks about the mountains singing and the trees clapping their hands! If I can keep my eyes open to the beauty all around me, to the beauty of a God who made me and knows me fully and loves me anyway, it shifts everything else. It puts what’s true and lovely into focus…

Are you thirsty? Are you weary? There is plenty to drink at the banks of the river. There's a current of love that will carry us when it feels like we can't carry on any longer… if we'll only let it. Come drink your fill, there's always enough. Come rest and let the burdens you carry heavy on your shoulders slide off into Love's capable and strong hands. Come. Breathe deep. There is a Love that runs deeper…

I’ve spent the past few years visiting some of the deepest pain in my own story via counseling - going to places I thought it might kill me to revisit because they were so painful. But as I traveled to the places in my heart that had been split wide open like a Canyon, I encountered the nearness of God in those very places…

How can God be "before" ALL things? That doesn't even make sense to me. I think about this past year, the pandemic, when we all lost SO much, when so many of us forgot that we belong to each other and didn't love well, when we felt more divided than ever... I don't have the answers to that…

I love good food. Anyone else? I am HERE for all the flavors, for the dishes I’ve never tried before. I love to eat. And here’s the thing, God sets a banquet table of goodness for our souls each day. We’re invited. We can eat our fill and be satisfied with the richest of fare. So many days, I forget…

I didn’t expect to find Love in the desert. I didn’t expect to be held and seen in the darkest night of my soul. I didn’t know that I would get to watch it happen with my own eyes as God met me in some of the deepest valleys of pain in my own story and brought healing and refreshment…