“Ruthlessly eliminate rush from your lives.” Chip Ingram’s words echoed over and over again in my mind. But all I know how to do is rush. If I don’t rush how will I get things done? If I don’t rush how will I get the kids to school on time? But according to Chip, rushing …
Leave it to God. Leave it to Him, to in His infinite, perfect, and infallible ways to dig up something brand new in my soul that I didn’t even ever know I was afraid of. Over the years I have worked up a pretty exhaustive list of my fears, in order to allow God to …
No thanks. (I mean that is what one side of me wants to say, right? The side of me that doesn’t want to pray certain prayers because God might answer them in a way that challenges me and also the side of me that plugs my ears, closes my eyes, and says “la la la” …
This is what it looks like to be known since you were 5 years old. It means being able to look back and know all the ways that I have messed up, fallen short, forgotten to call, or jaunted off to live in another state and loving me still. It looks like stealing fries without …