“Take hold of My Peace within you. Take hold of My Love within you – My Power to guide and strengthen and sustain you. In quiet, confident trust you will find My strength for this day.
“God was inviting me to feel the full intensity of my longing, to allow those longings to shape and soften me, as water softens the fibrous compounds in wheat.
Whether you’ve been observing Lent every year or you’re just learning about it for the first time, the invitation is the same: come.
Reading quietly, underlining sentences and dog-earing pages, is also a way of knowing God, of loving him with my mind.
This year, you can read through the entire Bible in as little as fifteen minutes a day.
Here are three simple practices to help you receive all this sacred season has to offer as you get ready to celebrate the best Christmas yet.
The world doesn’t need more perfectly presentable Christians. It needs people who love Jesus and are willing to show up and say, “I can’t do anything on my own.
Growing up in the church, I’d always assumed that, if there was something I wanted, then it was probably—or definitely—not God’s will for me.
The whole purpose of my life is to be wholly Christ’s, which means I must not hold onto anything else. In the offering, the person I am and the words I write become what they were always meant to be . . .
“Jesus’ love compels us to do the unthinkable, awkward parts of initiating friendship — ‘And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and wa
