The transition period from winter to spring is always one of reflection for me. As I watch the snow melt away and feel the earth start to warm again, I can’t help but look back on what the Lord has been thawing and melting in my own life. Here are just a few of the…
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Surrender and Receive
Have you ever woken up in the morning and felt more tired than you were the night before? You hoped that you would enter the next day refreshed and ready to take on whatever comes your way. Instead, you feel your battery is careening towards 0%, and you have no idea how to slow it…
An Experiment in Rest
I am an expert at pretending to rest. I can fool myself into thinking that I’m taking the appropriate amount of time to be still, to stop checking items off of my to-do list, and to enjoy that art of slow living. But the truth is that I’ve never stopped striving at all, every time…
Are You Resting Well?
And on the seventh day, God finished the work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work that he had done…for about 20 minutes and then he looked over his to-do list and added a couple more things. And then he checked his emails, just in case something…