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A Sweet Sale: The I Am Holiday Gift Bundle

Happy Thanksgiving week, friends! If we’ve known each other for any length of time, you know Thanksgiving has long been my favorite holiday of the year. What’s better than circling up with friends and family and savoring the abundant gift of this one beautiful life? We have much to celebrate. Much.

In a moment, I’ll let you get back to your cooking and turkey prepping. I have at least three pies to make myself, not to mention a house to clean for guests. It’s hard to believe that in a week...

You are Incredibly Loved and Made for More

Guest Post with Suzanne Eller

Today I’m welcoming my sweet friend Suzie Eller to the blog. Suzie is a prolific and well-loved Proverbs 31 speaker and author, and today I’ve invited her to share a snippet from her new book Come With Me Devotional: A Year Long Adventure in Following Jesus . Suzie is a deep well of wisdom and grace, forged in the fire of real life. I’m also giving away a copy of her book (!) to one lucky reader. Be sure to leave a comment at the end to be entered for the drawi...

Shutting Down The Comparison Game

Comparison tempts at the most inopportune times. For example, when you’re launching a big project or trying something new and risky. When you’re meeting new friends and desire to fit in. Rather than feeling a boost of confidence, you glimpse someone else doing it bigger and better. In minutes, you slide from “on top of the world” to “bottom of the pile.” Feelings of insignificance and failure overwhelm.

Several weeks ago, a frustrated friend asked my advice in such a scenario. In the midd...

The Hard and Beautiful Work of Waiting

We weren’t prepared. None of us. Some things take more time than we want to allow, require waiting and space and time to do what they’re supposed to do. When we rush the process and set our own time tables, we think we’re creating our own success. In reality, we’re often causing our own crash.

No one expected winter at the beginning of October, at least not six to eight inches of snow. Two days before the temperature hit close to 80 degrees. The trees were busy with their fall celebration,...

The Worth No One Can Take Away

I was twenty-something years old. Perhaps that fact alone bought my silence. I was old enough to know better, big enough to enforce a “no.” Instead, I didn’t know I had any options. Doubted I was worth it. Thus, I stayed silent. After all, he never touched me. And he dressed his words with just enough power and deception to make me wonder if I was the one in the wrong.

The dismantling of my confidence took minutes.

For weeks I’d been negotiating a contract between our company, a customer a...

Push on With AN Answer Even if You Don’t Know THE Answer

GUEST POST: Chrystal Evans Hurst

You know that friend with whom you feel a deep soul connection, even if life and time rarely allow you to share the same geography? That’s how I feel about my friend Chrystal Evans Hurst. We met several years ago at a conference and rarely see each other face-to-face. But our phone conversations, text messages and sister-like-honesty prove we’re connected just the same. Which is a good thing, because the truth is we need each other. All of us. Pull up a cha...

My Best Resources for Deeper Emotional Healing

Emotional healing might be the most difficult kind.

When it comes to physical health, the body knows what to do. In most cases, we simply need to make space for it. Besides, we can usually see evidence when our body needs attention. A runny nose, a bad cough, a scraped knee. The need for healing is tangible, obvious.

Emotional healing, on the other hand, is more tricky. Not only do we discount emotions as childish or immature, evidence of emotional un-health can be hard to identify. It req...

The Answer To Your Cry For Help

ONLY 6 more days until the 

Help me. Please. I can’t do this alone.

I sat criss-cross on the carpet, my back up against my bed. Close by, my Bible sat open, full of answers, but I could not find them. I had no words save these eight.

Prayer delivered, I waited for rescue. Only the sky didn’t split open. Help didn’t burst through my bedroom door or ring my cell with deliverance. Instead, silence. And the weight of so many unknowns and impossibles clouding any clarity. I had no plan. No ide...

When God Doesn’t Heal

Have you joined the

We met nearly ten years ago, both of us passionate about ministry and unaware of the healing we’d need years down the road. Our meeting was short—a few days. At the time, he was a new Christian and a budding author and speaker, with enough raw talent to throw me into intimidation. I was a young (and green) speaking coach, tasked with guiding and equipping a group of communicators. He was one of the group, and his name was Nabeel Qureshi.

Conference complete, I returned...

The Only Path to Lasting Peace

Join me for the "I Am" Online Experience!

I’d been running my entire life. Not literally running, of course. But chasing a peace that always felt just out of reach. I worked hard to fix all my flaws and exhausted myself trying to prove I was worthy of love. However, in the process of running and trying and proving, I actually ran away from my truest self.

The truth is I didn’t like who I was. Not at all. I wanted people to think I was smart, strong and confident. But inside I cowered, sec...