For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told. – Habakkuk 1:5 That scripture stood out as I read my Bible on a Sunday morning in June 2004 while sitting in my Chevy Astro van with the odometer reading a bit over 177,000 miles.…
“What nevers have you been holding onto, that might suddenly be a possibility? What’s the dream you’ve been tucking away that keeps drawing you back, thinking what a life it would be!” My dream, since I was a little girl, has been to get paid to read books. The problem was, in college, I thought the publishing industry…
“The rearranging of how I view myself has cleaned the smudges off my mirror. Where there once was shame, now there’s grace.” The first time I ran for exercise I was 18. I got so dizzy I was seeing triple. I stumbled back to my dorm room and lay on my bed, feeling sick and ashamed…
“I still don’t feel entirely ready to take on this new challenge, but I’m learning that God does not wait until we are ready – and we can’t either.” On so many levels, I’ve had an easy and predictable life. I didn’t have to spend a lot of time embracing the unexpected. For the most part,…
My Soft Never A couple of seasons ago, I completed my first ever Olympic triathlon; something I would have never thought possible just a few years ago. Six weeks of literal blood, sweat, and tears were spent preparing for what ended up being a three-and-a-half-hour grind on the course. Training sessions entailed plenty of rainy swims, humid runs, and muddy bike…
How easily we forget that there are no “nevers” with God — absolutely anything and everything is possible. I’ve experienced so many examples of this in my life. When my wife Laura and I were first married, we dreamed of a European honeymoon. Unfortunately, it was simply not possible on a junior engineer’s salary like…
While there are many Soft Nevers I could talk about, my experience is when you say never to God, God says absolutely! The one I want to discuss today is this: I will never have anyone love me for me. Ever since childhood, I believed I was too awkward, too introverted, too quiet, too boring. It…
These seasons of challenge and growth and constantly doing things I thought I never wanted to do rarely look how I expect. But they are always opportunities for me to ask for an enlarged imagination, for me to wait and see how God moves unexpectedly. We had just moved to Florida when I met two…
“I love that journey for you” – Alexis Rose If you know the show, you know the song in a single note: The Schitt’s Creek theme. Most people smile hearing those minimalist, melancholy tuba notes, but for me it evokes both joy and pain. This emotional duality exists because Schitt’s Creek was my medicine…