For days I’d been trying to figure out how to encourage you about something I’ve had to do I feel like my entire life–being brave–but was most times terrified along the way. I think some part of me believed that bravery meant the absence of fear. That being brave somehow meant I should be immune to the waves of anxiety…
Proverbs 13:12: Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life. We’ve all heard this verse before and it’s quoted a lot when someone expresses their disappointment in the delayed fruit of a dream, or vision they’ve been working towards. Sometimes it’s used as a false medicine to treat the grief of soul we…
For the majority of us, there has been at least one thing spoken to you that, in a sense, broke a part of who you are. That can sometimes include even severing an important part of our personality or talent. It can be as simple as “you’re not cut out for this job,” to “you will always be nothing and…
Yesterday we talked about something that most of us have either been through or are currently going through: trying, and failing, at believing what God has promised beyond what we see now. There’s something so encouraging and empowering when God gives us a glimpse into our future or a vision to do something brave like start a business, teach a…