Thankful with All of Creation: 1 Chronicles 16:31-34

Thankful with All of Creation: 1 Chronicles 16:31-34

We’re halfway through our series on thankfulness, but today’s post is extra special because tomorrow is Thanksgiving! Before we know it, our families will be gathered around tables with way too much food, celebrating what God is doing in our lives.  And while we...
Thankful for the Best Gift: Romans 6:23

Thankful for the Best Gift: Romans 6:23

This is our third week talking about thankfulness, and today, I want to get to the core of our faith—the foundation of why we have such a great reason to be thankful.  The verse for this week is Romans 6:23: “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is...
Thankful to be His: Psalm 100:3-5

Thankful to be His: Psalm 100:3-5

For week 2 of the thankfulness series, I decided to write about Psalm 100:3-5: “Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to...
Thankful in the Anxious Moments: Philippians 4:4-7

Thankful in the Anxious Moments: Philippians 4:4-7

With Thanksgiving and Christmas around the corner, I’m going to be writing a series on thankfulness. The plan is to update my blog every week throughout the months of November and December with my thoughts on a Bible verse about being thankful. For this first...
Don’t Cry Your Way Through Life

Don’t Cry Your Way Through Life

It was the third day of kindergarten, and one of my sweet little students was just not feeling it. She sat in the “arctic zone” (a place for kids to cool off and take a break) and cried for what felt like the entire morning. She cried and screamed and kicked and threw...
The Beauty of Silence

The Beauty of Silence

I don’t love silence. Silence is uncomfortable. It takes away all my other distractions and leaves me alone with my thoughts. It suppresses me with an overwhelming sense of nothingness. So in order to avoid the dreaded silence, I fill my life with noise. Podcasts....