Category: Daily Encouragement
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There’s a word I wish I’d known sooner. It sounds almost pretty when you say it out loud. Schadenfreude. Damage-joy. Like something pressed between the pages of an old book. It isn’t pretty. It’s the little flicker you feel when a colleague gets the promotion and, just for a second, you hope it won’t last.…
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What do you do when your child finally asks the big questions… and your heart starts racing? Fifteen years ago, one Sunday sermon quietly convicted me in a way I’ve never forgotten. The pastor said we cannot simply “outsource” the hard conversations with our children. Yes, “it takes a village to raise a child” has…
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This Mother’s Day, my heart is grateful as I look at my three girls. Raising them is one of the greatest joys and most important callings God has given me. This letter is from my heart to theirs. A mother’s blessing, my prayers, and the things I long for them to remember always. Start children…
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Sometimes the stories we hesitate to tell—the ones laced with disappointment, doubt, or quiet heartbreak—are the very ones God uses to light a path for someone else. When we open up about the times we trusted a spiritual leader only to feel let down, or the moments we questioned everything we once believed, we give…
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When the questions rise like fog at dawn and answers stay wrapped in tomorrow’s hush,when your hands tremble empty of what they used to hold,and the heart whispers, “Lord, am I still useful at all?” Rest here, beloved.The One who spoke stars into placedoes not grow weary of your breathing.He gathers your sighs like scattered…