A Prayer for When Storms Arise

Waking up in a recovery room twelve hours after a surgery that was supposed to take six to eight, with a foggy brain and a numb body and the immediate awareness that something must have gone wrong — a...

20 Jul 7min

Most of us prefer the path to be direct and short. When life requires a longer route — application after application with no offer, a caregiving season that stretches on without relief, a waiting peri...

19 Jul 6min

Little Mary was certain she would play Mary, the mother of Jesus, in the Sunday school play. Her name was Mary. She knew the whole story. And when her teacher announced she would play Elizabeth instea...

18 Jul 6min

When James wrote his letter to the twelve scattered tribes, the first Christians were being driven into poverty and hunger. They were not facing mild inconvenience — they were grappling to survive. An...

17 Jul 6min

The tension hadn't lifted. The problem hadn't changed. And yet a mother reached out, gathered her daughters' hands, and started to sing — smiling, dancing, filling the anger-stricken air with words ab...

16 Jul 7min

Noah built an ark having never seen rain, spending decades on a task that invited mockery and tested his endurance at every turn. Moses, a man with a speech impediment, a criminal record, and every hu...

15 Jul 7min

Shame has a way of taking up enormous space in the heart. When regret and embarrassment over our failures settle in, we become convinced that we do not deserve forgiveness — and so instead of bringing...

14 Jul 7min

God gave Adam and Eve one rule in the Garden of Eden, and they still broke it. It is one of the earliest and most honest portraits of the human heart — born with a tendency to rebel, resistant to auth...

13 Jul 7min