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He Knows Your Pain - Blessed Is She

He Knows Your Pain

"The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; and those who are crushed in spirit he saves." // Psalm 34:19 “I know you’re faking it,” my coach said as I sat...
December 14, 2021
Teach Me Your Ways - Blessed Is She

Teach Me Your Ways

"Lord, teach me your ways." // Psalm 25:4 Completing my Montessori training and then getting my first job as a lead teacher at my top-choice school, I felt excited to...
December 13, 2021
Giving Like God Gives - Blessed Is She

Giving Like God Gives

He said to them in reply, “Whoever has two tunics should share with the person who has none." // Luke 3:11 He clutched both suckers, one in each hand. His...
December 12, 2021
Let Me See Your Face - Blessed Is She

Let Me See Your Face

Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved. // Psalm 80:4 Lord, make me turn to You. I'm tired, overwhelmed, distracted. I’m...
December 11, 2021
Help Us to Hear You More - Blessed Is She

Help Us to Hear You More

"But wisdom is vindicated by her works." // Matthew 11:19 Just a little embarrassed, I wiped my eyes as I stood in front of my honors biology students. It should...
December 10, 2021
Least in the Kingdom of Heaven is Greater Than He - Blessed Is She

Least in the Kingdom of Heaven is Greater Than He

“Amen, I say to you, among those born of women there has been none greater than John the Baptist; yet the least in the Kingdom of heaven is greater than...
December 09, 2021
Chosen for This Moment - Blessed Is She

Chosen for This Moment

"As he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and without blemish before him." // Ephesians 1:4 The skipping footsteps and tiny voices grew...
December 08, 2021
Receiving Double - Blessed Is She

Receiving Double

"Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her service is at an end, her guilt is expiated; Indeed, she has received from the hand of the LORD double...
December 07, 2021
Laboring for the Ones He Loves - Blessed Is She

Laboring for the Ones He Loves

“The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few.” // Luke 10:2 All my cousin wanted was a pumpkin pie, and there I was, three days before Christmas, frantically running...
December 06, 2021
Where Is God in All This? - Blessed Is She

Where Is God in All This?

“For the glory and praise of God.” // Philippians 1:11 One of the most important lessons of my life has been: It’s Not About Me. The good work that has...
December 05, 2021
When Jesus Doesn't Heal - Blessed Is She

When Jesus Doesn't Heal

“He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” // Psalm 147:3 I’d given a talk on the tricky topic of when healing doesn’t happen. A woman who listened writes...
December 04, 2021
Will You Accept His Living Water? - Blessed Is She

Will You Accept His Living Water?

"Surely in a little while, Lebanon shall be changed into an orchard, and the orchard considered a forest!” // Isaiah 30:17-19 During an uncomfortable season of spiritual dryness, just like...
December 03, 2021