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Taking Good Care Series: Part 1 I’m not quite ready to go roaring into the new year with goals and activities and accomplishments. I will get to that place. But first I’m going to do this: I’m going to take time to refresh. Or another way of putting it, I’m going to take time for…

Fear of failure, insecurity, lack of confidence. After my black leotard failure, I typically hid who I was because I was afraid I wouldn’t measure up. But then a year later in high school I would discover the power of Christian fellowship to transform when I started being a part of Young Life, a nondenominational…

My husband and I have been reflecting on holiday season choices we’ve made in the past, and we’re analyzing which ones served us well and which ones didn’t. For us, that means looking at our choices in light of honoring God, others, and ourselves. Here are a few purposeful choices we’re making for the holiday…

There’s nothing like an embarrassing moment to prevent you from moving forward in God-confidence. While I can laugh now at this high school memory, it had lasting consequences that took me a long time to escape. As a freshman in high school, I tried to break out of the shy-girl gig to join the cool-kid…

Everybody’s got something hard in their lives. A situation they can’t see their way around or through.  A person who’s a struggle. Finances or work that stresses. Health that is failing or weakening. Children going a direction they never imagined. A marriage crumbling. Faith that seems faltering more than fulfilling. An accumulation of hard things,…

My last post was about how we sometimes let the scale define us, instead of God’s truth. If it’s not our thoughts about the scale and our weight, most of us have been sidetracked by some kind of self-judgy thought.  The strategy I use to combat critical thoughts (as I shared in this blog post)…

That number you’ve wrestled with for more years than you want to count. That number that seems to go up and up. That number you’re never satisfied with. That number doesn’t define you. Those tight jeans don’t define you. That muffin top doesn’t define you. That stomach that’s bigger than you want it to be….

What if I loved more, judged less? That’s the question that filled my heart one morning during my quiet time with God. When I looked up some verses about judging, Jesus’ words from Matthew 7:1-2 pierced me: “ ‘Do not judge others, and you will not be judged. For you will be treated as you…