Category Encouragement
Ask Away
Are you afraid to ask for things? Can you ask on behalf of others, but find yourself struggling to ask for yourself? I am not a very good ask-er. I hold back on asking all the time. Especially when it is for things that I want or do not want. I am very hesitant in […]
Light for Today
“There is a light at the end of the tunnel.” Have you ever heard this old adage? It seems to be most commonly used when someone is going through some challenging and dark circumstances. The tunnel, or darkness, is temporary and soon enough the circumstance will pass. At one particularly challenging season in my career, […]
The Full Extent of Love
What would it be like to be loved to maximum capacity? To have the full magnitude and measure of love poured over you until you were bursting? This morning my husband and I were doing a devotional at breakfast on John 13:1-17. It is the story of Jesus washing the Disciples’ feet. Here is the […]
Making it through Moments of Melancholy
Do you ever experience moments of melancholy? A feeling of pensive sadness that comes over you with no obvious cause? A woe or sorrow that just has your soul feeling downcast? If you do, you are not alone. I, too, experience moments of melancholy. Sometimes these feelings seem to drift in slowly. On other occasions […]
Tears, Snot, and Tissues
I cry. When my heart wells up with emotion, it tends to spill out through my eyes. Let’s just say that my heart tends to be a well spring that frequently pours over. I cry when I am sad, when I grieve, when I hurt, when I am upset, when I am happy, when I […]
PEP UP for Joy 