Throughout much of my young adult life, I wondered what God’s will for my life was. I was hoping that God would write it in the sky telling me exactly what to do for work, who to be friends with, where to serve in the church, who to marry, and
I have a one-year-old daughter, and it often feels like every day is the same lesson in obedience over and over again. As her parent, I have a deep desire for her to be an obedient child who honors and respects the direction she has been given. With this desire,
I am terrible at the game two truths and a lie. In this game, you tell a group of people two truths about you and one lie, and they have to guess which is which. I find that I come up with a lie that is too obvious or way
I love the Word of God. It holds countless stories and testimonies that show us God’s heart. Not only this, but the very fact that God has intentionally given us His Word, and ordained it to be written over 1600 years by forty different authors on three different continents, shows
We named our fourth son Jonas. We didn’t do this because we wanted him to grow up to be a rebellious prophet. Rather, we liked the name, and it worked in English and in Polish (our family lives in Poland). I still remember when he was a baby and the
When I was in third grade, my class ended the year with a pizza party. This probably doesn’t sound very strange. Many classes often celebrated the end of the year with pizza parties, but this party was not just a celebration of the end of the year. The pizza party
Think about your average day. What words consume your mind? What content fills your heart? In the western world, not many of us place value on words by binding signs on our hands or decorating our foreheads with cloth. But we all set our attention and our affections on something.
When I was a little girl, I was terribly afraid of dogs. It didn’t matter the size of the dog or how friendly the dog was, I was terrified. Every time we came near a dog, my mom or dad had to pick me up and carry me to what
“You know how old I am, right?” These are the words I said to my boss as he asked me to take on a pretty big role at work. I was 28 and single at the time, and he wanted me to take over the women’s ministry at our church.
If God told me to offer my daughter as a sacrifice, I don’t know if I could do that. I think I would cry the entire journey up Mount Moriah. I would love to say that I am as spiritual as Abraham. I would love to say that I am