A virtual photo album from the happiest day ever.

Three biblical truths that have breathed hope and peace into my heart in hard times—I pray they will do the same for you.

If Scripture is any indication, the very areas of our lives we feel forgotten by God in, are the very parts of our story He is going to use the most significantly in His.

Creative and helpful little things you can do to share your life and stay connected with friends you don’t get to see often.

God doesn’t promise to work good out of not-good situations because He owes it to us, He promises to work good out of not-good situations because it’s who He is.

I think God sometimes gives us tastes of His goodness in giving us tastes of the Promise but then allows circumstances to obstruct it from view to see if we’re going to rely on what we can SEE, or rely on remembering who He has shown Himself to BE.

God is ALWAYS faithful to His promise, but He first has to prepare US to possess the promise.  Otherwise, what was meant to be a good gift that blesses us will end up becoming a burden that destroys us.

Some things are helpful to hear and some things are simply not.

Rather than allowing fear and uncertainty to drive us to say, “But God?”, obedience allows us to look fear and uncertainty in the face and say “But, God.”

If our heart’s desire is to see with 20/20 vision, God—for who He truly is rather than for who we allow our circumstances to distort Him into, could it be—that gratitude, is the lens that ensures we do?

I’m learning more and more that in the same way I love to feel helpful and needed in other people’s lives, other people love to feel helpful and needed too—and sometimes that means in mine.

You were so sure it was going to happen.  Little things kept confirming it and you just felt it in your bones.  All signs pointed to it being right.  When you prayed about it you felt peace, and even though you asked God to make it clear if the thought wasn’t from Him, it persisted.  But now, it didn’t happen and you’re disappointed.  And confused.  If it’s not going to happen…why did I feel like God was telling me it was?

We can’t control the timing of the seasons of life we’re in.  What we can control is who we allow the seasons we’re in to turn US into.  And it’s our approach to the seasons we’d rather not be in especially that does a good deal to determine the types of people we’ll become.

What a dreamlike day in Iceland showed me about the certain hope—and responsibility—we have as followers of Jesus.

Because starting your week having let these sink deep, it will transform everything.

What I learned about waiting from Iceland's hidden wonders.

True friendship is more about serving than being served—here's five ways we can serve each other well.

Two important truths I wish I would have known when this was me.

We’re told we all have them, and we’re told to use them—but how can we use them if we don’t even know what they are?