While reading Isaiah 28 the other day something profound caught my attention. In this chapter, God is speaking to leaders—people who were supposed to be watching, guiding, protecting, and helping others. But instead, they had become consumed with themselves. They were overindulging in wine, chasing their own pleasures, and becoming so spiritually lost their lens became foggy. And God called them out. Not because He wanted to destroy them, but because he was reminding th

I recently had one of those little moments with my kids that started as an annoyance and ended as a lesson from God. I was at the market with my girls, and they were playing together in the aisles. Nothing terrible was happening. They weren’t doing anything wrong. They were just being kids. But I found myself getting frustrated. I wanted them to stop. I wanted them to be aware of the people around them. I worried they were in someone’s way. I wondered if people were

In my first year of sobriety, I had all this extra time on my hands. I no longer carried the mental load of figuring out how to balance alcohol and life because alcohol was no longer part of my life. So, I forced myself to try new hobbies. I tried everything—from sticker books to crocheting and even indoor gardening. It was April. I was three months sober and desperately waiting for spring to arrive. Winter in New England is cold, dreadful, and gray. Being cooped up for month

"He gives snow like wool;He scatters frost like ashes.He hurls down His crystals of ice like crumbs;who can stand before His cold?He sends out His word, and melts them;He makes His wind blow and the waters flow." Psalm 147:16-18 Does it feel like you're reading about the weather in this passage, or does God illuminate a deeper truth—that He is present in every season of our lives? New England endured an especially difficult winter. Frigid days, blizzards, long dark nights—y

The lot was full of tall grass…it was windy, the unkept overgrowth danced like waves of the ocean… Yet there was this one patch of beauty, in the middle of the winds, and much larger wild weeds. The weeds that overshadowed didn’t diminish their beauty, they highlighted it. Although surrounded, their unmistakable and intentional presence could be seen far off… as I watched the wind blow, it seemed they were perhaps surrounded by design…. The things that could have choked them

"And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up." Galatians 6:9 When one observes a bumblebee, one can appreciate how much of a remarkable creature it is. It carries loads in its fragile frame that look too heavy. It will fly in conditions that would terrify many other insects. Day after day it continues its work, gathering pollen and fulfilling its purpose. As I watched this bumblebee moving from flower to flower, I couldn't hel

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