Have you ever had something in your life that you held onto so tightly that your spiritual/mental/emotional knuckles began to lose color, sucking the life out of you? Have you ever had that one thing that you just wanted so bad that you would do whatever it took to hold it all together on your own? Just to watch it fade and crumble? Just to watch that thing you worked so hard for, fought for, believed in, and put everything, your whole self into, just fall apart? When our des

Remember your first real "break-up"? Or the first time someone you truly adored walked out of your life? Or the first time someone really special in your life that you loved dearly moved away or cut you out? Or when that loved one died? Remember the immense amount of pain that consumed your heart? Perhaps that time is now. Maybe you've experienced what you thought was the most heart-wrenching pain in your life, and now you are going through a different experience that is show

One of the plants currently living in my room I found living on the clearance shelf at Wal-Mart. It was a little beat up and there was no label identifying what kind of plant it was, how much light it needed, how often to change the soil, etc. but I loved its hope-filled leaves that still held onto its green life despite the brown edges that began to creep on it. So I bought it and took it home, hoping to nurse it back to health so it could flourish even more than before. Unf

When we've come to the end of ourselves and the whole world has seemed to fade away... when all our doings are undone and our trying ends in failure... even then, there is One who remains. There is One who lifts our face to His, who sets His eyes steadfastly on our shifting eyes of shame, telling us to stop the worrying and let go of the fear, to just look into His eyes and find the only thing that heals and satisfies our wandering souls: His unshakable love. There are plenty

If the title doesn't say it, I don't know what will. Have you been waiting on a promise from the Lord to be fulfilled and are you still waiting? Have you said to yourself, after a battlefield of praise and worship, soaking the floor with tears, fasting, praying, believing, "God, I feel it! Here it is! My breakthrough is here! Your promise to me is here!" And then you find yourself in an even longer season of waiting? And then you're like, "Okay God, what was that about?" Been

"Let go and let God..." We hear that quite a lot and it is true of what we should do. But we often make letting go sound like such an easy process, at least I find myself making it sound easy when it actually isn't... at all. I've never been the super controlling type but when it comes to certain areas of my heart and life I struggle to loosen my grip, as I think a lot of us can say about at least one area in our lives. One particular area that I've really been struggling to

For today's devotional, I wanted to do something a little different. Instead of giving a long word, I feel we need to take time to intentionally pray for one another. This new year has started out weird and uncertain. There are many questions I have, prayers I've prayed, and desires in my heart that I have not heard from the Lord on. And I know I am not the only one going through something right now. The Lord has been teaching me in this month that is flying by quickly, that

Recently I've been trying to get myself in a healthier state with my insecurities and fears, no matter how big or small, asking the Lord to reveal to me what I am struggling with and asking Him to mend those deep parts I don't even see and give me confidence in Who He has made me. As one small part of this process, I decided to try to slowly work my way off of wearing foundation/face makeup. The skin on my face is something I've always been insecure about, even when the acne

I love wildflowers. The ones that a lot of people call weeds, they are still so beautiful to me. One of my favorite things to see is a little flower growing through the cracks of sidewalks, or vines growing over old, abandoned buildings bringing new life to the old and devastated. While there are plenty of plants that have negative effects by taking over different places and objects with the amount of growth they produce, there are still those random few tiny buds you see pee

Seasons. A common theme we talk about in the Christian life. "I'm going through a season of healing... I'm in a season of blessing... I'm in a season of the dryland..." I find myself talking about seasons a lot myself. I also find myself missing certain seasons, seasons that I "felt" closer to God, or seasons that were more joyful, even sometimes missing the painful ones. Today as I was praying to the Lord I felt Him revealing to my soul that we, I, have become obsessed with