Category: Thought Catalog
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Come into the sun.
Return to me, God says. & I’ll return to you. Well, the Lord of Armies, to be exact. Just because I was raised in the church & have never known a world apart from it doesn’t mean that my faith has been a good representative of that. I’ve always known Jesus, but that hasn’t necessarily…
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The Belonging: Tuesdays
When our Tuesday group first started, I didn’t know what to expect. Somedays, when my faith was wavering & I was looking at the facts laid out in front of me, I was shaken & doubtful. Because the facts said you only know about two girls & you think this is going to bring girls…
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The Belonging: When We Step Out.
Where do I even begin? Do I go back to the days when I used to respond to the “What do you want to be when you grow up” questions with “a writer & a speaker at big conferences”? Do I go back to the night when I was surrounded by the church body &…
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Beautiful things.
“You make beautiful things,” he repeats back into the crevices of my heart. Bc I’ve been stressing & hoping & wondering & questioning & praying. I have a lot on my plate lately & so I want to blame it on the things mounding over me, pressuring me to be so much & do so…
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When it all boils down to love.
“For I desire faithful love & not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.” Hosea 6:6, CSB Have you ever read through Hosea? I just decided to dive into it, the last time having read the book through was years ago, though it had always been a favorite of mine. I love a…
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A ready help.
All too often I find myself looking at the Bible as only a history lesson. Proof that God once had it. Here’s what he did in the good old days. Here’s the work he performed in his prime, before retirement. The present isn’t a waiting game for God. He isn’t sitting twiddling his…
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Halfsies.
“‘Come, let us settle this’, says the Lord. ‘Though your sins are scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are crimson red, they will be like wool.” Isaiah 1:18 CSB I was recently driving down the road when God brought my attention to a little dance studio in passing. A building…
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Grief on its tiptoes.
Sometimes it feels as if grief walks on its tiptoes, creeping up behind you until its too late & all at once you’re engulfed in a sea of sorrow. Its so weighty, but the initial pitter patter sound can fool us all. Mother’s day was like that for me. I woke…
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I fight to feel purposeful.
I honestly didn’t even realize until I was reading the genealogy in Matthew, highlighting all the women who were important mamas, but when I came to verse 16, the tables turned. “& Jacob fathered Joseph the husband of Mary, who gave birth to Jesus who is called the Christ.” —Matthew 1 The shift in my…
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The best marriage advice I’ve ever been given.
Today is three years with my handsome, loving, & selfless man. Three years. No, its not 10, 20, or 50. But its three years. 365 days three times over (my hubs isn’t here to do my math right now). 1 child growing 3 years older. 2 children being added to our family. 2 children being…
TOTHEUNTAMEDHEART. 