Category: Faith
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Healing Worship
I’ve learned a part of maturing is doing the things you don’t wan’t to do but know you need to do. At least, that’s what I told myself one Sunday as I got ready for church. My body was charged with anxiety, my mind weighed down from the difficult week.…
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Walk With Him
We all have big dreams and plans we insert into our faith journey, all the while forgetting that the number one thing God wants from us is relationship.
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Gentle Answers
I ended my last blog post with a verse from Proverbs. “A gentle answer turns away anger, but a harsh word stirs up wrath.” Proverbs 15:1 I think a lot of us can attest to this verse. We’ve been on a receiving side of someone snapping an angry answer at…
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Anger and the Gentleness of Jesus
I’ve been angry for a long time about a lot of things. I was consumed by bitterness that was uncharacteristic of me, and I didn’t know what to do. Then I looked to the gentleness of Jesus.
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Be Courageous
“Courageous.” That was the word that came to me as I laid on my yoga mat, surrounded by my coworkers. Half of our monthly meeting was dedicated to self-care and time with Jesus, initiated by group yoga. Our instructor had told us to breathe in deeply and exhale out one…
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Passion Burnout
For a long time I’ve carried an image of the ideal person I wish to be. This person does everything right. She knows exactly who she is. She goes to bed early, she works out, spends time with God, writes every day, eats well, maintains relationships and makes everyone she…
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God’s Deliverance
I finished a journal today*–the first journal I have ever finished front to back. It has taken me over a year to fill, and cover to cover it is full of my faith journey over the past year and three months. Its pages hold my deepest transformations, so much of…
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Be Still and Wait
A few words I got from the Lord earlier in this year were “be still” and “wait.” I was in a season of worry, a season of looking frantically ahead, a season of anxiety. At the end of the spring and beginning of the summer, I kept feeling like God…
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The Lies We Believe
In this past week I’ve gone to two women’s events that addressed identity and lies. One was a larger group of women and another was a small group of friends. Women were sharing what lies had taken over their thoughts and then we would pray over them. They were both…
Always Emily 