fear and intimidation are natural to anything we try for the first time, because of our imperfect nature. That doesn’t make what you’re doing any less worthy. The enemy would love to derail any spiritual progress you make in the name of Jesus, especially if it means that your progress might have a hand in the progress of others.
Seeking God: True bravery
Sometimes true bravery means waiting for God to act on your behalf.
Just hit send
Does anyone else do this? You take forever writing an email because you keep doing more editing than actual writing, and then once hitting send, you immediately open up your sent mail and read and reread the same email you just spent 3 hours on, poring over it, rereading it aloud to yourself, and continuing... Continue Reading →
Perfect conditions to trust
November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). NaNoWriMo is an annual challenge for people all over the world to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. We push ourselves to produce quantity over quality (for now) just to reach this arbitrary word goal and "win" Nanowrimo for the year. I am one such crazy person! I love NaNoWriMo because... Continue Reading →
A Trembling Courage
I had a dream that I was being pursued by a group of thieves and murderers who wanted to kill me. I wanted to share it here because I’ve been working hard at my vocation in the past weeks and I just thought it was really cool. I was standing on sort of a hill... Continue Reading →
small courage
I went to dinner with a few friends from work. I generally like the people I work with but this dinner made me think twice. The conversation began continued, and ended with malicious gossip. Not just stupid he-said, she-said, but hateful degrading comments and names. Things that were said were probably not far from the... Continue Reading →