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You Illuminate
“In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.” John 1:4 Your life is my light. When darkness threatens me, Your light – in the form of Your life – steadies me. When death seeks to write its name over my life and my children’s lives, big and small, Your life...
My Life’s Bywords
We laid, nose-to-nose, on my bed and I stared into eyes that weren't hazel like mine and I saw myself in them. She asked me why? Why all this pain? She's inherited her mama's life-question. The stories that surreptitiously escaped her guard that morning were like...
All So That I Might Know You
“I will betroth you to Me forever; Yes, I will betroth you to Me in righteousness and justice, in lovingkindness and mercy; I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness, and you shall know the Lord. " Hosea 2:19-20 Your words to Israel are for me, too. I, too, hold the...
Do the Little Things
This is the last guest post (for this season). Authors from all different walks and stages of life, from all different expressions of Christianity, have filled in each other's gaps and told a story of how He turns the bitter, sweet. We've tasted bite-sized portions of...
What Do You Believe?
All of His stories welling up in a person are ones to handle with care, but there are some that feel especially sacred. This story today is one of those. Katye Riselli lets us, many of whom are strangers, in to a kind of darkness which few have known. I felt...
Pressing Deeper to Know the One Who Turns the Bitter Sweet
"I've come to give you courage," she said as she stood on my doorstep and embraced the hidden parts of my story that I couldn't hide behind bloodshot eyes and sniffles that Saturday morning. Cindy Finley lives His courage. She met us at the airport with her...
Slavery Is Not Inevitable
There is always a story behind the story. Nate and I have been privileged to walk with these two cherished friends and witness the story behind this story that many thousands across the world are now reading. I read the manuscript years ago while spending a weekend at...
A Heart For Your Children
We pulled away from a dinner with their family in our childless days and a sense from Him surfaced in my spirit: "you're going to learn from them." And that we have. In those days, we had no idea that God was preparing us to have a bigger-than-average family or that...
Right Here In The Waiting
Anne and I chatted over fasting and finding Him in a guest home we shared for a brief stint while Nate and I were on a personal retreat and she was traveling for work. I didn't know then about this group of women that had emerged from Anne and a few others who were...
What Kind of Woman Will I Be?
In my thirties -- a stage of life where I have never before had less time and more people depending on me -- I have seen Him put shape to what friendship is meant to be. Iron sharpens iron, one life brushing up against another and causing a beautiful friction that...