“She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.” Proverbs 31:27 There are days when the laundry piles up, the dishes sit longer than they should, and the house doesn’t look the way we hoped it would. In those moments, it’s easy to feel like we’ve fallen […]

“In this you rejoice greatly, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials, so that the genuineness of your faith, which is much more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested and purified by fire, may be found to result in [your] praise and glory

“What He opens no one can shut, and what He shuts no one can open.” Revelation 3:7 NIV There have been moments in my life where I stood in front of a closed door, confused and disappointed. I prayed. I tried. I believed it would work out—and it didn’t. At the time, it felt like

“Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation.” 1 Peter 2:2 ESV The other day I looked over at the peace lily I’ve had for nearly a decade. It has been with me through many seasons of life. As I studied the plant, I realized

“All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.” John 6:37 ESV One of the things I love most about Jesus is that He does not wait for us to have our lives together before welcoming us. He does not ask us to clean

“The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.” Isaiah 40:8 ESV Today I took my dogs for a walk. The wind whispered softly across the hay fields just beginning to wake with green. Daffodils peeked out, golden as the sun itself, nodding gently in the wind as if

“Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, And He brought them out of their distresses. He hushed the storm to a gentle whisper, So that the waves of the sea were still.” Psalms 107:28-29 AMP The other night I was sitting inside listening to the wind shake the house. The dishes clanked

“So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone.” Ephesians 2:19–20 ESV The past few days, I’ve been helping my husband finish a basement he’s

“Then Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn;