TICK. TICK. TICK. Today is the LAST day of CHRISTMAS IN JULY. But is there ever a LAST DAY OF JESUS? Hmm. Think about it. Was the CROSS HIS LAST DAY when HE said, "IT IS FINISHED?" Was the TOMB HIS LAST stop when the stone was rolled into place? It certainly looked like the end. But what appeared to be HIS LAST DAY became our FIRST DAY. Because HE ROSE. The tomb was empty. Death was defeated. And JESUS was ALIVE. So where is JESUS today? HE IS HERE. CHRISTMAS IN JULY may b

My husband is THE SECOND. I am THE SECOND. My son is THE SECOND. And today, we celebrate the birthday of our son's SECOND. Five years have passed, yet it still feels like yesterday. Oh, the miracle of BIRTH. I can still picture the moment Hudson entered this world. And now my "little boy" is holding his own little boy. What a beautiful reminder that we are simply vessels of GOD. HE entrusts these precious little lives into our care, yet HE never asks us to care for them in ou

Do you shy from being VULNERABLE? Because what if you SHOW UP as your REAL VULNERABLE self? What will THEY say? What will THEY think? What will THEY do? Is it worth the RISK of being VULNERABLE? VULNERABILITY means "the quality of being easily hurt or attacked, or the state of being open to injury" (Oxford Dictionary). Who is your THEY? There was a time when my THEY was actually GOD. I was afraid to be VULNERABLE with HIM. I BELIEVED that if I was VULNERABLE with GOD,

I remember as soon as she saw me, she greeted me with a hug and a smile that came from deep within her HEART. Then she handed me a picture she had colored just for me. A turkey. I will never look at a turkey the same way again. As we waited for our food, we made paper boats out of napkins. Then somehow the napkins turned into butterflies. Then came rock, paper, scissors. A turkey. A paper boat. A butterfly. A CHILD. And a simple night that became tattooed on my HEART. Because

What if all you had was JESUS? Would HE be enough? Oh, you may quickly say, YES! Of course! Because that sounds like the right CHRISTIAN answer. But what if the answer is actually... NO. Because JESUS isn't JUST ENOUGH. HE is so much more than enough. HE IS EVERYTHING. Think about it. ENOUGH means adequate, sufficient, satisfactory. But EVERYTHING means ALL. WHOLE. ENTIRETY. So would you rather have ENOUGH or EVERYTHING? From the very beginning, humanity needed more than a te