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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...