FIRST THINGS FIRST. INHALE. EXHALE. REPEAT. And before you know it you are BREATHING like you have never BREATHED before, because you are so STILL as if time has stopped. Not because your circumstances have changed, but because YOU HAVE! You are STILL! You stop rushing through THE MOMENT and begin EMBRACING THE MOMENT just as it is. Because STILLNESS has a way of CALMING THE WATERS within. You begin to SEE things around you, which have always been there, but it is as if yo

I think our world has FOMO. The FEAR OF MISSING OUT. We FEAR missing the opportunity. The promotion. The relationship. The vacation. The experience. Someone else's life. But what if our greatest FEAR isn't missing something temporary? What if the greatest thing we could ever miss is JESUS? The Bible tells us: "The LORD is not slow in keeping HIS promise, as some understand slowness. Instead HE is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repenta

I am an ant. A tiny speck in a sea of ants. Actually, probably more like a grain of sand. If someone looked for me from an airplane, they would never find me. And guess what? Neither would they find you. Hmm. That doesn't sound very encouraging, does it? But maybe it is. Because I"T'S NOT ABOUT ME". It never was. When I look at the vastness of creation, I realize how incredibly small I am~ "I look up at Your macro-skies, dark and enormous, Your handmade sky-jewelry, Moon and

TO OBEY or NOT TO OBEY? Is that the question or the answer? YES! What do you think when you hear the word OBEDIENCE? YIKES. For me, it used to sound like a life filled with DO'S and DON'TS. DON'T DO this. DO this. DON't DO that. DO that. Where is the JOY in that? But wait... if JESUS IS JOY, wouldn't following JESUS be JOYFUL? YES. Because OBEDIENCE isn't about following rules so GOD will LOVE you. OBEDIENCE IS OUR RESPONSE TO GRACE. We don't OBEY to earn HIS LOVE. We OBEY be