Whenever I’m exhausted or hangry my mind starts spiraling down, down, down. Small struggles magnify into immense hurdles. Little discouragements become portals to dark, depressing thoughts. Minor issues become monstrous. Maybe you know that downward cycle, too. The...
Do you ever take yourself and your work too seriously? I’m guilty of this. When I’m under stress, I become a task-oriented monster. Get it done. Get it done. Get it done. Then super frustrated if it doesn’t get done. Just last week I had a day where I worked 10 hours...
When my mom was young, my grandfather inspected her room on the holidays in search of anything out of order. Mom and her siblings called these “Hollerdays.” As a child, my parents continued the practice of room inspection. Clothes cascaded out of my dresser like a...
Do everything with love…. Do everything without complaint…. Which do you find more difficult? With love or without complaint? I struggle with the everything. In Overcomer: 4-Weeks in Philippians, we’ve discovered that the Apostle Paul loves that word everything. “Do...
If we’re honest, we all are enslaved to something. Whether enormous or tiny, illegal or socially acceptable, we all have temptations that won’t stop whispering. Danielle Strickland knows this all too well. As a Captain in the Salvation Army, she spends her days...
The suffering I experienced during treatment for cancer shattered me. The illusions I once clung to of youth and strength and vitality vanished as chemical toxins stripped me of the life I once knew. Pain lacked a throttle. The equations of God plus life I once knew...
