Learning deeper trust in God doesn’t often happen in straight lines of obedience. It’s when we cycle through trials, tripping and sometimes falling, that we realize our desperate need for Him.
Knowing our need for Him leads us to putting our trust in Him.
There's a small window in life when your parents are healthy, your children are little, and everyone is happy and together. It feels like it will last forever, it won’t. Cherish every moment of it.
Anytime I take my eyes off of Jesus, my life slowly starts becoming worse. My thoughts get louder, my peace gets quieter, and I start trying to carry things I was never meant to carry. Everything changes when I fix my eyes back on Him.
Being honest with God is essential in paving an authentic connection from our heart to His. Pretending to be fine would be fake at best, deadening at worst.
If something hurts, we can tell Him. Instead of shouting our feelings to the world, let's ask God to help us process them.
The older you get, the more you realize:
Alcohol isn't needed.
Exercise is therapy.
Prayer is medicine.
Rest is needed.
Health is a privilege.
Happiness is Jesus.
I don’t think people miss department stores because they need another place to buy stuff. They miss having somewhere to actually go. The decorated windows, perfume counters, little restaurants, holiday displays, gift wrapping… shopping used to feel like an experience instead of opening an app and adding something to a cart.
What a gift that our hearts don't have to feel healed to be healed. We don't have to have God's answers to have His comfort. And we don't have to see His promises fulfilled to stand in the certainty that they still apply to us.
God, give us relief from our unbelief.
Pride hates to be called pride.
Humility doesn't care what you call it.
Defensiveness is a symptom of a heart that's more worried about protecting itself than hearing the truth.
Being part of a generation that was told “Wikipedia is not a source” makes it genuinely baffling to me that jobs are now telling people to just use ChatGPT for everything.