Do you need answers? Help with what to do? Wishing, hoping, praying God would clearly voice specific insight and direction concerning something that's been swirling around in and suffocating your thoughts?  I get it. I desperately want to hear from God. Yet, countless colliding calls compete for my attention, time, and energy. So much and so many that they can’t possibly all be from him. To make matters murkier, I’m struggling to be still enough to discern and learn the difference. ... VIEW POST

My heart is broken. For the broken. Specifically the shattered souls who don’t realize how desperately they need Jesus. Because I’ve been them before. And the darkness is ridiculously deep. Empty. Lonely. Numbing. And though I'm confident in our need for the Savior, I tend to slip back into pits and forget its vast depth at times.  You’ve been there, haven’t you? Maybe even now. In a state of dim. Longing, pining for more. More love. More purpose, fulfillment, contentment. Richer ... VIEW POST

Tied up in tangled knots. That’s the state of my heart these days. I wake to it day after day. Stare at the mess again and again. With no notice of the beginning or end, or even a loose loop to pull out, cut free, and unravel the scrambled confusion. Do you ever feel off? Stuffed with a soul that you can’t distinguish why it seems off-beat, how it happened, when it started, where things got side-tracked, and how in the world you can possibly iron out the craze back to smooth? At stuck ... VIEW POST