Healing from Shame

“Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.” Ephesians 6:17 Are you ashamed of your life choices? Do you worry if those bad things were exposed, then your loved ones would reject you? Or do you experience anxiety in your work,...

Picture Healing

Surely he has borne our griefs     and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken,     smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions;     he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,     and...

Tell Your Heart to Beat Again

One of my new favorite songs is “Tell Your Heart to Beat Again” by Phillips, Craig and Dean. I can hear it over and over again. Each time I hear it my heart literally feels the ache of the greatest disappointments in my life but without the pain of...

Pork Tacos for a Crowd

She Braise I used to not think of myself as a performance oriented person. I used to think of myself as having a laid back nature and not a controlling type. Enter cooking (and children) and I morph into neither an “alpha” nor a “beta,” but a genuine brute. Something...