On today's episode: "So often, we do the same thing, don’t we? We feel the pull of the Lord asking us to do something, and we dismiss it because we think who are we to do anything? We’re not anyone but a sinful, hot-tempered, barely Biblically literate, if at all, person that just wants to live a good life and be comfortable. What we’re forgetting is that it really doesn’t matter who we are. This story isn’t about us."

On today's episode: "As I sat to reflect, my eyes grew wide with wonder. My heart thumped as I really sat for the first time and truly tried to imagine what it must be like to experience Heaven. No more cancer. No more pain. No more suffering. Can you even imagine what it must be like to open your eyes and rest them on Jesus? That thought alone is the one thing that always pulls me from the depth of sadness and into joy."

On today's episode: "Hospice picked up everything from our house. The oxygen. The hospital bed. The table. The wheelchair. The medications. The disposable gloves. I am putting away walkers and throwing away A&D ointment, Icy Hot, and Biofreeze, 3 smells I don’t care to smell anytime soon."

On today's episode: "But then, that bit about making the image of the calf they bowed down and sacrificed to....the forgetting...we do that same thing today. Pick anything that you run to for comfort. Pick anything that you can’t seem to put down and walk away from. Pick the thing that when you can’t have or do, you feel more than disappointed. Sin has a really subtle way of creeping in sometimes. Even people with the best of intentions succumb to creating idols to place in their lives and they worship them."

On today's episode: "We pray for an answer, a solution, or a need. When that doesn’t come in the way we think it should, how often do we consider that prayer unanswered? As we see in this verse, God answered the prayer, but not at all the way they probably hoped and wanted. Given the track record of the Israelites, they needed something that would continue to bring them into the majesty of God’s provision. And so, He’ll give us the tools, but it’s up to us to use them to meet the need. How’s that saying go? Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish..."

On today's episode: "Was it just another Mom talk? Perhaps. However, things have felt different over the last three days. Their attitudes seem more open, compassionate, welcoming, and patient. It starts at home, friends. It started with me as I grew aware and humble enough of the log in my own eye to allow the Lord to convict me and then open the question to call them into being more like the men I know they are capable of being. More than anything, I want these boys to be a light into a really dark world. We can’t change how the world views this Jesus culture. That’s not our aim."

On today's episode: "We can feel like our lives don’t really matter to Him or we shouldn’t take up His time with our pesky prayers over minor upsets. But y’all? He’s not limited like that. He’s not sitting with list in hand marking off the number of “silly prayers” we’ve uttered. Just like I adore when my boys excitedly tell me about the little details of their day because THEY ARE TALKING TO ME, I believe the Lord feels the same."

On today's episode: "I think we do the same thing with God, or are tempted at least. At passing glance, we can be so focused on our bigness next to our struggles. We feel isolated and alone in our struggle. We hyper focus on our inadequacies and failures. God, at a passing glance, might just be this comfortable “thing” that’s always been there, so we approach Him in prayer with a limited view or we roll off our to do list of prayer, out of obligation."

On today's episode: "Not many see the effort put into cleaning the floors that always immediately seem to get dirtier than they were before you cleaned them. No one is standing behind you applauding the clean out of the outgrown closets you had a spare 10 minutes to tackle, so you did. There’s no telling the number of times you sacrificed your sleep and your health, your body and your mental health to make it happen for the people in your life."

On today's episode: "Do not forget your humanity. You’re a broken person and so am I. Don’t think for one second that you’re not capable of some of the very same awful things that you’ve judged other people over. If you haven’t yet, just wait. Live long enough and you will. This is where humility comes in. The moment we elevate ourselves to a place where we’re better than someone else, we forget just how desperately we need the crucifixion and resurrection as much as the next person."