In Him we live and move and exist.
It’s time to clear up some misconceptions about faith. I bring this topic up because I keep seeing a bunch of Christian merchandise trinkets that say, “I will walk by faith, even when I can’t see.” Cute, but the statement is redundant. Walking by faith IS walking when you can’t ... VIEW POST
Five years ago in the middle of extreme stress, living in and out of the hospital with our son, our marriage was falling apart. Granted, the stress of what we were enduring had the potential to derail even the strongest of marital unions between the emotional pain, the medical debt piling up, ... VIEW POST
Most of us believe that God can heal. We sing songs about it. Sadly though, many of us aren’t convinced that He wants to. If you are familiar with the Bible, you know the first time God identified himself as Healer. In Exodus 15, Moses led the Israelites on dry ground through the Red Sea ... VIEW POST
A while back I was scrolling mindlessly through social media when an image containing a quote halted me👇🏻: If you have “been to Gethesemane” you know what he means. It’s the excruciatingly painful gut-wrenching process of laying down whatever we think we have a right to. ✔️ If you ... VIEW POST
People often say to me they don’t know “how I am so strong” after all the difficulties that our family has endured the last seven years. I’m not strong... I have simply chosen to believe. My strength is only in faith. In the beginning of Carson’s illness, the only thing God said to me was ... VIEW POST
If you clicked on this because of the title, I want to be clear before you read on ... this is about the benefits of long-term trauma IF we handle it in a good way. FOR SURE there is a bad way to handle it. I tried that for a while. From experience I can tell you that it’s not a path you want to ... VIEW POST
For seven years, Easter has been the most difficult holiday for me to endure. You’d think the hardest would have been the time we spent Christmas in the hospital (2015) or Thanksgiving in the hospital (2016) or the five Fourths of July’s or the four of my own birthdays also in the hospital. While ... VIEW POST
HOPE is one of my favorite subjects, you can probably tell. Maybe it's because it's such a personal journey of mine, maybe it's because we need an antidote for the overwhelming hopelessness in the world. Think with me for a second, about what it was like when Jesus lived here. There was ... VIEW POST
Disclaimer: I didn’t want to write this. I wanted to stay quiet and deal with life. I don’t write for sympathy... I write out of obedience, because God wants the story documented before such a time as He brings the victory. A few months ago I told you about the cause of Carson’s illness. You can ... VIEW POST
I had a weird compulsion to buy new furniture and I didn’t know why. We have three college-age kids, not enough cars for all the drivers in the house, and have been chipping away at a mound of medical debt. New furniture was not on any list of priorities. No dedicated Dave Ramsey follower would ... VIEW POST
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