It was a really rough week leading up to Christmas 2015. For a long list of reasons, a super sick kid was the beginning of my undoing that week. There was so much brimming just below the surface, that all it took was one last thing throwing a wrench into pre-holiday and travel plans for…
“You know Syb, I think this is just supposed to be part of your life story. You’re going to be able to encourage someone else through this. And you know you don’t want a boring life story.” She listened to me describe my confusion and discouragement over a disappointing meeting that played out the one…
It is finished, Jesus said. His sufficiency instantly covered our infinite future insufficiencies yet to occur. He died to make us new, yet so often we forget where to look when we need to be reminded that we are already enough. Instead of fixing our eyes on Jesus, we tend to fixate on that which is…
Many of you have been as touched as I have by the life and legacy of Kara Tippetts and today I wanted to share a few practical tips for helping others in crisis, inspired by her story. Most of these tips shared below have come straight from a podcast I listened to in which Kara…
Many of you know I’m a counselor by trade and perhaps that background and my own season of hard is why I’m not one to shy away from the tender topics in life like suffering and even death. Tim Keller said of suffering, “There is a purpose to it, and if faced rightly, it can drive us like…
More than 350 years ago Pascal wrote, “Our imagination so magnifies the present, because we are continually thinking about it, and so reduces eternity, because we do not think about it, that we turn eternity into nothing and nothing into eternity.” I find my soul stretched and my heart enlarged as my mind has wandered…