An All-Knowing and All-Seeing Perspective

Jesus tells us to consider our own sin before judging someone else. We don’t have the all-knowing and all-seeing perspective God does. Just like we can look at a situation and see one truth, our neighbor might look at the same thing and see something else—but God sees the full reality, the full truth. We never know what someone is going through. A reflection on perspective.

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Finding My Faith Identity in a Strawberry Field

How our simple family trip to pick strawberries reminded me of our identity as God’s own, and how He seeks us in the world the same way we hunt for the reddest, ripest berries in the patch.

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Four Key Ways to Love Someone with Depression

Have you ever tried to love someone with depression but it feels like there’s a wall between you? Or maybe it’s you who has depression, and while your heart longs to love well, the depression feels like a barricade so thick and high you can’t possibly overcome it. Here are four ways to offer love despite depression.

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How exercise helps me love myself as God loves me

Daily exercise has been helping me understand that taking the time to breathe, to stretch, to feel the glorious wonder of muscles and tendons and skin all working together in a beautiful dance of flexibility and rhythmic movement, is a beautiful reminder of the blessings God has given us. As Psalm 139:14 reminds me about the Lord, “I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.”

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