A Good Story
Who doesn’t love a good story? And these days it’s the narrative that matters most, right? After all, inside almost everyone is a deep-seated…
The Author of Every Story
If you are familiar with my writing, you know I love digging deep into the stories of biblical people. The women of the Bible frequently…
God Helps Give Us Faith in the Middle of the Story
In the beginning of February 2020, I went for a final ultrasound to make sure my fourth baby was growing as expected and ready…
The Lord Gives Us Hope for the Future
Often, a season of caregiving begins with a difficult diagnosis for a loved one. In a moment, or perhaps slowly over the years, you…
The Lord Helps Us Understand Suffering
If you are a child of God, (meaning you’ve wholly thrown yourself at the mercy of God’s saving grace through Jesus Christ), then …
The Lord Helps Us Find Purpose in the Mundane
What are your least favorite caregiving tasks? I can think of several things I wish I could outsource! Sometimes, the most tedious things…
The Lord Helps Us Rejoice in Service
What do you do when your loved one doesn’t appreciate your care? For me, it can be easy to go one of two ways: grow bitter and resentful…
In All Your Caregiving, The Lord is Caring for You
Minutes after doctors discovered a tumor in our four-year-old daughter, a nurse took my hand and led me through the hospital to the pediatric…
Lessons About Faith
As we begin a brand new series of What She Said, I am struggling to find the words to describe how grateful I am to our guest writers who …
Victory and Rejoicing
At the end of Psalm 63, we once again find David rejoicing and praising God in his wilderness of suffering. He speaks of a God who is just…
Clinging and Being Held
If you are in the wilderness now, what do you do in the watches of the night? If you are like me, that is often when my fears and anxieties overwhelm…
Praise and Satisfaction in the Wilderness
Yesterday, we were reminded that the dryness and weariness of our wilderness create a thirst in us that draws us to the Living Water, Jesus, who…
Longing in the Wilderness
“David did not leave off singing because he was in the wilderness, neither did he, in slovenly idleness, go on repeating Psalms for other…
Better Than Life
“Your steadfast love is better than life.” To be steadfast means to be resolutely firm and unchanging, firmly fixed in place; immovable. The…
Guidance in the Wilderness
This Psalm was written by David in the wilderness of Judah. Verse 11 lets us know he was king, and most think that it was written …
Wilderness Worship
We are welcoming back Paula Miles this week. I first heard Paula speak at a women’s conference. Her passion for the Word, love for Jesus…
The End of Wrestling with Betrayal
It is time to bring our wrestling with betrayal to the foot of the Cross, where Jesus was made ransom for our sins. This, and His…
Breaking the Never-Ending Cycle
Our home is in a semi-rural area, and we see lots of wildlife. Groundhogs dance, fawns learn to stand on wobbly legs, rabbits, geese…
The God Who Sees
There once was a beautiful princess, the daughter of a powerful King and the sister of many. One day, she received a message from her…