Sep 28, 2021 | care for your soul, encouragement
It’s late September in southwest Michigan, and almost harvest time in the vineyard that hugs my backyard. It’s this time of year that the moist evenings hold the perfume of sweet, ripe grapes close to the earth. I often wonder if it’s heaven pushing this...
Jan 11, 2021 | care for your soul
2020 came with the reminder of everything we can’t control and regardless of how we shape it, nothing’s guaranteed. So how do you build up resiliency and retreat from the anxiety of hard tomorrows as we enter a new year with more questions than answers?...
Dec 27, 2020 | care for your soul
“The soul speaks its truth only under quiet, inviting, and trustworthy conditions. The soul is like a wild animal–tough, resilient, savvy, self-sufficient, and yet exceedingly shy. If we want to see a wild animal, the last thing we should do is to go crashing...
May 16, 2020 | care for your soul
What brings you life? It’s a question I asked myself for months on the heels of loss, grief, disappointment and the release of a God-given dream. Wrestling with the reality of knowing God loved me, but not feeling it. A battle between heart and head with a...
Aug 10, 2016 | care for your soul
Sometimes it takes a storm to move you to the other side of the lake. Have you ever found yourself in the midst of a storm? Whether we’re talking weather or the turbulent storms of life, the collision of two air masses with rapid change in wind direction and...
May 6, 2016 | care for your soul
IF…your mind wants to believe, but your heart struggles to wonder if God’s promises are for you, and IF…chaos is all around and it seems the only response you hear from God is, “I know”, WAIT. Just wait. He hears, He loves, He knows every...
