Posts: Surrender

Breadcrumbs of Faith

Trusting God’s timing in the waiting season

Feb 03, 2025

One of the hardest parts of the faith walk is the waiting season. The hibernation period, where we are asked to be still and trust God’s timing. We can try to force movement, but it doesn’t work.

Small Doses of Replenishment

Learning how to create sustainable renewal

Feb 19, 2024

Spring is less than a month away. I can feel it in the air. The temperature rising into the upper 50s. The sound of birds preparing to look for the perfect tree to call home. Walking by a small lake in our neighborhood, I see the ducks and geese have returned to the thawed water. It was still frozen not more than a week ago. The tiniest of buds have begun appearing on the trees in our backyard.

What Comes to the Surface

God’s refining work in our lives

Apr 10, 2023

I left the laser and skin spa holding an ice pack against my left cheekbone to reduce the burning. It was about to thunderstorm, so I rushed to my car. The lead aesthetician told me it might sting more than last time since she cranked up the heat on my IPL service. I wasn’t seeing the results I wanted after two treatments, so she suggested we try a more intense level.

What a Cracked Tree Limb Taught Me About Change

Aug 23, 2016

When it’s 11:23 pm and you are listening to a bible study sermon online, taking notes about how sin grieves the heart of God, and a tree limb outside your 3rd-floor apartment window cracks and splits off the trunk onto the roof of a car port in the parking lot, you begin to pay attention. I’m a believer in signs, in symbolism and metaphors, in the universe sending us messages that we desperately need to hear.