The key to discovering hope after dreams are cut down is recognizing unlikely shelter, and embracing a different life after the storm.

When you or someone you love is on the ongoing prayer list, it helps to focus on a different kind of blessing.

To navigate a season of grief and gratitude, we must realize that often grief is mixed with gratitude, and that gratitude needs grief.

When wrestling with gratitude, it helps to remember the giving part: that gratitude costs us, but also gives an unlikely blessing.

When words are hard to come by, the Spirit steps in, reminding us the Who is what matters, finding faith hidden inside the words.

When facing a season of trial, know the significance of 40 and, perhaps most importantly, anticipate the other side of 40.

When storms leave you feeling empty, embrace a new emotion and realize that empty precedes the miracle. Then watch what God can do with empty.

To be still requires a slowness, a surrender, and a knowing that will help carry us through periods of even still.

Some mountains remain, some mountains return, but when we find a way through, the hardest part of the mountain really has moved.

Some temporary blessings are just for today, and even though the blessing doesn't stay, the source of the blessing matters most.