If you’ve been feeling a little lost in all this weirdness, you’re not alone. Just please know it's not punishment, rejection, or because you've been forgotten. Just the opposite—God’s inviting you to rest, heal, and know him better. This season isn't easy, but it's not draining your life away. It's making you stronger, wiser, and …
Agreeing Forward
It’s not just a goal that determines your destination. It’s also how you view yourself on the way. If you see yourself as a powerful, confident, loved child of God on an adventure, that's what you’ll grow in, regardless of what you encounter. If you see yourself as a helpless, hopeless, valueless orphan held back …
Along the Way
There are places in your journey where the walk has been slow and difficult, but this one just seems too much. The path is full of exhausting terrain, irrational turns, and ridiculous obstacles. You’d try to go around this part, but to your right are the Unfulfilled Expectations Tar Pits, and on your left is …
Write the Vision
One of my favorite dreams I’ve had was of a vast, beautiful library in heaven, in which many of the books were waiting to become real on earth. Each was filled with stories of the love, grace, goodness, and power of God in a person’s life. But for one reason or another, not all the …
Refocusing
The more you focus on something, the more it becomes a pathway of thought, and a filter through which all information gets processed. If you wake up every day centered on something dark—fear, bitterness, loss—you give them power, and one or all of them will grow into a highway of negative expectation. That negative expectation …
