A Love Like This...

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God has really captured my heart this Good Friday. I find myself, as Easter approaches, feeling more awed than ever about what happened on that cross on my behalf. I can’t quite put my finger on what it is that has me more moved this year than any other.

Maybe it’s the overwhelming knowledge of a God who loved me so much that it wasn’t just enough to create me in his image and make plans to prosper me and grow me. he wanted more. He

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A Love Like This

The last two days have been out to get me. All those little annoying life interruptions seem to have been stored up just for the past 48 hours. I locked my keys in my car and had to wait for a locksmith in the parking lot after work. I work in the hood. The dog ate something off the ground at the bus stop and I had to fish it out of his mouth. I’m pretty sure it was a half eaten candy. Work has been crazier than ever, the

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Embracing The Moments

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Recently my friend Jocelyn and I have been talking about ‘rest’ – abiding in Him and not striving so much to ‘do’ but allowing ourselves to ‘be’ what God longs for and designed for us to be – in communion with Him.

It all comes down to trust doesn’t it?

In another conversation my friend Libby reminded me that “anxiety equals cheapened grace”. Is His grace not sufficient for whatever we face? She also said we should “embrace the moments rather than imagining the

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