When Advent Reads Us
Today I want to welcome my son, Daniel Geisen. He joined me last year during the Advent season and has so many great insights to share about this time of year, I invited him back again. He and his wife are currently living with me as they both seek what the next step...
Sabbath Offerings ~ Hope for the Holidays
Picture milky sunlight barely breaking through on a cloudy day. The glimmer of the sun's rays work hard to shine brightly while gray clouds work harder to dispel them. In this snapshot hope seems lost. The holiday season can look like milky sunlight ready for its big...
Holiday Hustle Meets Holiday Slow Down
My head fell wearily against the car's headrest as night quickly enveloped the last bits of day. The sound of my young sons' voices chattering in the backseat floated and swirled, breaking the silence I so desperately craved. The ending to a day of celebrating was...
Sabbath Offerings ~ Advent
Advent is one of my favorite times of the year. Growing up I paused each Sunday in Advent with my family. We lit the Advent candle on the wreath and said a prayer. However, the deeper meaning of Advent was lost on me. In the last few years, I made a change in how I...
Sustainable Grief in the Midst of Joy
Our lives are a series of beginnings and endings with space for everything in between. There are days fierce competition reigns between the two and other days where they peacefully coexist. The extreme highs and lows sometimes appear as grief versus joy. The push and...
Sabbath Offerings ~ The Tie That Binds
I learned to tie a man's tie in eighth grade. My dad patiently showed me as I prepared for a role in a play. It all started when I wrote an essay about the main character in a book for a contest. I won and the reward was playing the lead in the play based on that...
What One Weekend Taught Me About God’s Faithfulness
There is this beautiful space of honesty, clarity and belief we are someone of value. It's called vulnerability. Somewhere in the middle of trying to be someone we are not and finding the gumption to be who we really are is where our desire for obscurity meets the...
Sabbath Offerings ~ The Healing Place
Where do you go when life is hard? How do you seek peace when heartache invades the corners of your heart? What brings you hope when the horizon of life looks fuzzy and uncertain? My answers to these questions may not look like yours, but one thing is for certain-we...
Chosen and Approved: Whatever She’s Having, Please
Today Jeanne, Emily and I wrap up our Chosen and Approved series. Emily shares her experience with feeling insecure when making decisions. She begins with a story from childhood and describes a "whatever she's having, please" way of life beginning at a young age. My...
Five Minute Friday ~ Journey
And so - we write for five minutes, our words tumbling out - no editing, no polishing - just flat out on a one word prompt! We gather all our beautiful thoughts here in our Five Minute Friday community and then love on each other as only we can do! Click here to learn...
You Are ~ Your Identity in Christ
The world shouts you are not enough. The voices fill your head with: unworthy, unloved, and unable. Inside your head competing voices vie for the top position, shouting louder and stronger to draw your attention to them. Your shoulders round and insides crumble each...
Life this Past Month~ (what I’ve really been up to)
I wake up some mornings and lie in disbelief as I realize another week has passed. I take account of the week and wonder if I have lived fully and loved well. It's easy to remain in a place of feeling stuck without outward signs to prove otherwise. Life this past...
Chosen and Approved: Knowing Where Our Value Comes From
Looking to the world for approval trips us up over and over again. Time after time we walk away disappointed because the world's standards never seem to match the measuring stick of our expectations. Today we continue our Chosen and Approved series and Jeanne dives...
Lessons from David for the People-Pleasers
Today is week three of the Chosen and Approved: Untangling Our Identities from People and Perfection series. Today Emily takes a look at the story of David to help us understand our people-pleasing tendencies. She digs into David's affair with Bathsheba and the plot...
Reflections of Ourselves
Today we continue our series on Chosen and Approved: Untangling our Identities from People and Perfection. I know I spend more time listening to who the world says I am instead of embracing the truth that I am known and chosen by God. I get caught up in worldly...
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