It is not a woman's job to make a man feel better about himself. It is not a man's job to make a woman feel better about herself. Value must come from within, and the responsibility to feel better about yourself comes from within too. When someone then treats you with value, you can nod your [...]
A few months ago, I read a post by a mom who had decided to stop telling her kids how to do anything a better way. Instead, when they ran up to her for her approval after doing something, she chose to say the words, "I just love to watch you ___ (dance, play soccer, [...]
A Moment My four nights of night shift were over. Sleep was very much enjoyed. And now I was alone in our flat in Dublin, Ireland, with the dulled sounds of the city suburbs moving around the walls protecting the tiny patch of grass, and my washing on the line, three floors down. I leaned [...]
Why is the name of Jesus so powerful? Sometimes it isn't ... Take the seven sons of Sceva (Acts 19) - What went down was that Sceva's sons thought they could yell Jesus's name at some demons in a guy and they'd instantly flee--maybe into some pigs, or at least down the road. Not so. What [...]
So many women make their lives about self-improvement, posting about how they should be — they should be thinner, kinder, better mothers, better wives, better housekeepers, better earners. Listen to me. Right now, in this moment, you're enough. You really are. Even if you're fat or mean or selfish or lazy or have a miserable, [...]
Behind the Face I think one of our biggest mistakes with our Christianity is that we've put a face on it and then tried to live up to the face when it was always meant to be a heart thing. Normal We're each just as real and great and dumb and stupid as everyone else [...]
God is beyond this world yet in us. He is outside time yet in this moment. He has seen our past yet applauds our present and welcomes us into our futures. His presence shines through our presence while in his presence. We come from him and are alive in him and return to him. Every [...]
Some people only seem to come alive when they're complaining. Don't make that your rocket power for living or you'll never make it to the moon.
We've misrepresented the gospel for too long by diminishing it to sin vs. no sin. We've told people they get the grand prize of exchanging the sin they love for holiness, something not all that enticing to hearers when it doesn't promise to feed their soul in the ways they're used to. What if we [...]
I'm excited about seeing how much culture is changing re the perception of what women "should" be -- what they should wear, how they should speak, how confident they should be in company, how intelligent they should reveal they are in conversation, what jobs they should take, what roles they should be limited to... Emotions [...]
