Regular Girl

On today's episode: "In Genesis, it is written that Joseph’s brothers hated him so much it drove them to sell him into slavery. The path that he later took to rule over Egypt as second in command to Pharaoh is at the top of the list of the greatest comeback stories."

On today's episode: "Are you disappointed because that person is supposed to make you happy and they don’t? Guess what. They never will. They’re not supposed to. But God."

On today's episode: "It could just be me, but I can feel the tension in the air. I’m wound tight. My kids seem to only hear me break up their “affection” for one another when I raise my voice with an exasperated tone. There is literally nothing from the outside that displays this command for the world to see. How many people, including my own family, have seen my actions and walked away never seei...

On today's episode: "It’s easy to say God is good when the healing comes or the diagnosis comes back favorable. But what about when those things don’t happen? What then? We seem to have taken a God that defies all human comprehension and diluted Him down to being connected to our own unique experiences. Our individual lives control our perspective of God."

On today's episode: "I believe that the single most important way we can build our faith is through our everyday pursuit of God. I do believe He will speak through His Word, but more than anything, it’s probably going to be a fairly simple affair of opening your Bible and reading the words for yourself."

On today's episode: "If you are believing that grace is reserved for everyone else, but not you, you are undermining the purity and unbelievable truth of the Gospel. He died for you. That big thing that you feel is unforgivable, He died for that."

On today's episode: "As Jesus approaches Jerusalem, he weeps. The words He speaks are haunting. “If you knew this day what would bring you peace...” Luke 19:42. He knew all along, but so many were blind. Then a couple of verses later, my heart nearly shatters. “...because you did not recognize the time when God visited you.” Luke 19:44. I hang my head in sorrow as I think about my own sel...

On today's episode: "For me, the thought that brought me to repentance was the memory I wanted my family to have of me at such a precious time. I was filled with tremendous sorrow as I considered my attitude toward the man I promised to cherish and the incredible blessing of these children that were looking to me to learn about the world. It was as if I had looked at these blessings that...

On today's episode: "Most often, I think we see this Scripture asking us to ponder ourselves in relation to status or possessions in life. But for me, I think it has application to our anxiety and our to do lists. We worry about the things we cannot control in an effort to figure it out so that we can gain access to this idea of freedom. What we fail to see is that our stressing over our...

On today's episode: "Without fail, the children get stuck in their present circumstance of how upset they are that they didn’t get what they wanted . They project that upset toward me as a mean and heartless Mommy who takes everything away and always says no. The no is so big that they forget about all the times I did say yes. Sometimes even that very afternoon. Sometimes the no is for so...

On today's episode: "I can cope until I can’t. When I can’t, I feel myself slipping away. The girl that knows herself, stands confident and brave in the face of adversity, with the armor of God, she starts to take a knee until she’s on her back, tears streaming into her ears, crying out that she can’t do this anymore."

On today's episode: "I am consistently amazed at how time and again the response that Jesus gives to those that would sin is simple kindness. It’s love. Sure, He detests sin, but His response was kindness upon the undeserving and it is through that kindness that the undeserving are led to salvation and redemption."

On today's episode: "All of those bad things in this story represent every “wrong” thing that’s present in your life right now. The stuff that hurts, makes you angry, tests you, and on and on…those are always going to be present. But the diamond is still there...which is every small thing (and big!) we have to be thankful for."

On today's episode: "The whole point to anything we do as Believers is to bring people to the Kingdom. If we were able to accomplish anything great by our own might, virtue, talent, ability, we get the glory. But when things just don’t make sense, it’s a crazy act that defies every law, and there’s no way THAT person could have done the thing, God gets the glory."

On today's episode: "He screamed, thrashed, kicked, and all but bit me as I worked to wash him. And you need to know that in the midst of his fighting against me, I was in there with him, holding him, and working around his thrashing, kicking, and screaming, while I washed him clean. In my frustration, I had a minute with the Holy Spirit, because if you are a parent, you know that sometimes it’s o...

On today's episode: "But I chose to extend love and grace in this moment because as a Believer, I’m called to. It’s in moments of inconvenience and frustration that I feel more and more of a tug and whisper of the Holy Spirit asking me if I see Him. It’s funny because we so often cry out for mercy when we’re the ones begging for it in light of a mistake. We can be so stingy with the exten...

On today's episode: "It's all this time later that I can finally see Romans 8:28 clearly in this situation. When we stand in the current time and glance back over the big scary things we’ve faced in the past, I hope we can recount all the countless ways that God pulled us to the other side."

On today's episode: "But return to that opening verse? “…he struck the Egyptian dead and hid him in the sand.” That seems to be a tiny detail that we gloss over when we talk about the great Moses and the work he did for God’s Kingdom. We forget where he came from. We overlook the fact that he was a simple man and committed a big, mortal sin. He murdered, and then he tried to cover it up....

On today's episode: "My heart began to fill with possibility. What might the world look like if every single Believer truly embraced what it means to live with the power of Jesus within them? What then might happen for the lost that lived with THAT reality being what they experienced in the world day in and day out?"

On today's episode: "There are times when the hurt is too deep to form words. The pain is too blinding to complete the thought. It’s too much and we don’t even know what to pray. So much is wrapped up in such a simple statement. “God, be with her.” Even now, as I type, I can feel the profound sense of nothingness settle into my soul. It’s like every human emotion collides at once until th...

On today's episode: "I have dreams, sure, but if I’m not careful, the pursuit of something that seems to be a priority will quickly steal my joy and make me a grump. Here’s the thing. This house, this family, these “obligations”, represent the multitude of blessings I prayed for many times. I don’t have to clean. I get to."

On today's episode: "This is where the hope of the Gospel can make way to take a breath. I don’t have any good answers as to why suffering exists in the world, but I feel this incredible sense of simple, yet profound joy spring up when I think about how God loves us so much that He sent His Son to live and die. He made a way for true reconciliation. For us to return back to Him. So we can...

On today's episode: "What does it look like when we show up in our lives and try to make the day an opportunity to serve as many people as we can? In my experience, that’s a win every time."

On today's episode: "If my children asked me those questions, I think I might fall apart. Simply, there is nothing that my children could ever do to make me stop loving them. My love for them is not contingent upon them behaving in any which way. It’s a bonus, and the days they do listen to me are really good days, but I don’t ever use the really bad days when they seem set against me fro...

On today's episode: "The biggest lie we tell ourselves is that we’ll remember, but we rarely do. When my boys are grown, I’m nervous that the only thing my three sons will remember is all the yelling and instruction giving. “Mom sure did tell us to put pants on a lot.” Our perception of a situation can oftentimes be shaded by how we felt at the time or what we assumed others felt. So, it’...