ONCE UPON A TIME... there lived a little girl who was knitted together in her mother's womb. She was fearfully and wonderfully made. Then came the dot... dot... dots... of life, that followed the beautiful beginning of her story. The moments that wounded her heart. The words she never forgot. The disappointments. The hurts. The fears. Trying to survive, she packed a suitcase filled with the bricks she believed would protect her. Bricks of REJECTION. INSIGNIFICANCE. INSECURITY

HUMILITY is not being a doormat. HUMILITY is not being weak. HUMILITY is not being a coward. HUMILITY takes the courage to say IT'S NOT ABOUT ME because IT'S ALL ABOUT JESUS. Simple? Yes. Easy? Not always. Because my nature wants life to be about ME MY plans. MY timing. MY recognition. MY way. But HUMILITY steps aside and says, "JESUS, YOU lead." And when I move out of the way, there is less of ME standing in the way of what GOD wants to do through me. Oh, the FREEDOM of let

FIRST THINGS FIRST. INHALE. EXHALE. REPEAT. And before you know it you are BREATHING like you have never BREATHED before, because you are so STILL as if time has stopped. Not because your circumstances have changed, but because YOU HAVE! You are STILL! You stop rushing through THE MOMENT and begin EMBRACING THE MOMENT just as it is. Because STILLNESS has a way of CALMING THE WATERS within. You begin to SEE things around you, which have always been there, but it is as if yo

I think our world has FOMO. The FEAR OF MISSING OUT. We FEAR missing the opportunity. The promotion. The relationship. The vacation. The experience. Someone else's life. But what if our greatest FEAR isn't missing something temporary? What if the greatest thing we could ever miss is JESUS? The Bible tells us: "The LORD is not slow in keeping HIS promise, as some understand slowness. Instead HE is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repenta

I am an ant. A tiny speck in a sea of ants. Actually, probably more like a grain of sand. If someone looked for me from an airplane, they would never find me. And guess what? Neither would they find you. Hmm. That doesn't sound very encouraging, does it? But maybe it is. Because I"T'S NOT ABOUT ME". It never was. When I look at the vastness of creation, I realize how incredibly small I am~ "I look up at Your macro-skies, dark and enormous, Your handmade sky-jewelry, Moon and

TO OBEY or NOT TO OBEY? Is that the question or the answer? YES! What do you think when you hear the word OBEDIENCE? YIKES. For me, it used to sound like a life filled with DO'S and DON'TS. DON'T DO this. DO this. DON't DO that. DO that. Where is the JOY in that? But wait... if JESUS IS JOY, wouldn't following JESUS be JOYFUL? YES. Because OBEDIENCE isn't about following rules so GOD will LOVE you. OBEDIENCE IS OUR RESPONSE TO GRACE. We don't OBEY to earn HIS LOVE. We OBEY be

"IT IS NOT ABOUT ME"~ who I think I am, who others say I am, or even how I feel about myself. It is all aboutJESUS~ who HE IS, what HE has done, and who I have become because I am IN CHRIST. Just two little words with the power to change our identity— who we are and who we sometimes think we are. Just two powerful little words— IN CHRIST. Try it~ I am ACCEPTED... IN CHRIST. But when I do not accept myself, and when others do not accept me, am I still accepted? Have you ever a

Good Morning NEW DAY. A NEW DAY filled with NEW MOMENTS with JESUS. Because JESUS IS HERE. For it is all about JESUS and "IT'S NOT ABOUT ME". Hmm. But maybe it is about me and you and everyone else, because GOD made it about ONE AND FOR ALL. For didn't GRACE come swaddled in a manger? Hmm. GRACE is one of those CHRISTIAN~ESE words that is the most misunderstood, because it isn't a word. GRACE is a GIFT, a beautiful GIFT that never stops giving. GRACE GIFTS you STRENGTH, when

ONCE UPON A TIME it happened to you & I & to everyone else. We had no power to start it or stop it as it happened because GOD made you...

I am an ant. A tiny speck in a sea of ants. Actually probably a grain of sand. And if you tried to find me from looking from an airplane...