Regular Girl

On today's episode: "Look at the rain in your life and take a deep breath. Maybe God is washing away the trash. Maybe He’s preparing the soil of your life for the harvest. Maybe He’s begging you to turn your eyes to His protection so you stay dry in the downpour."

On today's episode: "Two years after I got my Zumba Teaching license, God asked me to give Him that class. After that, there wasn’t a class I taught where the Holy Spirit didn’t show up. He was there. With us. Delighting in the chains of self-doubt, insecurity, and body hate breaking."

On today's episode: "It seems that now is a perfect time to remember. He did it once and He’ll do it again. You are no less His beloved than you were back then. Don’t be so shortsighted to believe that because you can’t “see” or “feel” Him at work in your life, that somehow makes that belief true."

On today's episode: "If you really want to interrupt the flow of discontent that comes from riding the more train, take a minute and really reflect on what you actually need in life. We need surprisingly very little, it seems. Meditating on how grateful I am for my needs being met and literally listing out everything I can be thankful for, I suddenly see an incredible abundance where ther...

On today's episode: "Your spouse. Your kids. Your family. Your friends. None of them should have the power of holding your happiness, nor should you be holding the reigns of someone else’s happiness. Why? Because every single one of us will fail at that task. People are the most disappointing bunch in creation and when our goal in life is to just be “happy”, we’re channeling our brain to...

On today's episode: "Today, and every day, we must ask ourselves if the current activity in our lives reflects the sincere appreciation we have for what the Lord has done for us? Are the habits and behaviors we engage in providing the best witness? Are the things we spend our time on reflective of how we really feel about Jesus?"

On today's episode: "I think a fair amount of us are living our lives in a constant state of referred pain. And when I say a fair amount of people, I mean all of us. Ever since the beginning of time when the fall of man occurred, and Adam and Eve were sent out of the Garden, there’s been a physical separation from God. As humans, we have so many needs. We feel so many things and a lot of...

On today's episode: "And then, my Mother in Law was diagnosed with terminal cancer and of the 1 to 3 month prognosis the doctors gave her, we had 1 month and 2 days. That 1 month and 2 days was the most blessed time in my life, because, friends, we have been in the fire and come out without a lick of smoke to our frames."

On today's episode: "The seeming absence of His action and justice at the time of the wrongdoing, do not mean He is actually absent. Scripture tells us that the Lord is patient, but not just in the ways we conceptualize patience. He is patient so that all of His children may come to know Him and not perish. (2 Peter 3:9)"

On today's episode: "but sometimes, I just want to sit and escape into my thoughts. I want to sit alone and not talk to anyone. But you and I both know that’s a shining example of the opposite of what God is calling His people to. So I started collecting myself to realize that I really have nothing to fear when He’s calling me to do something, I got up and went over. “Mom, tell me about y...

On today's episode: "But what He wants more than anything is our whole heart. He can make and do anything He wills, but He can’t force us to give Him our whole heart. That’s something He left up to us. When we give that up to Him, it’s an act of pure love and it’s not something manufactured or something forced upon us."

On today's episode: "Suddenly, I go from isolated and coincidental incidents that seem to be related, into a full-scale attack on who I am. Every seemingly strained encounter where I assume the reason people are distracted or not as engaged with me is because I’ve done something to make them mad or they never really liked me to begin with. My identity in Christ is fileted on the altar of...

On today's episode: "You too have been given a calling. It may be to disciple your children and boldly tell them your own testimony. It may be to walk away from the gossip or the recreational relationships that don’t glorify God. There are so many ways to live out your calling right where you are, but by all means live a life worthy of that calling."

On today's episode: "The acceptance of that incredible gift, and I want you to really consider what a gift was given to us, we are so moved and transformed by the Holy Spirit and compelled out of love for Him because He first loved us, to do things for our fellow man out of that same love."

On today's episode: "There is so much that is hard and challenging about being a human in the world, and that’s a truth as old as time. The more things change, the more they stay the same, but let me remind all of us that our God does not change. His goodness, His kindness, His love and pursuit for His people never dips in intensity. He has seen exactly what is happening to you right now...

On today's episode: "Yep, that one sure does it to me. When I think about the constants in life, there is so much we are not guaranteed. So much changes. People are disappointing because we think they’ll act one way, only to find they don’t at all. But God! He never changes. Faithful."

On today's episode: "Every single one of us have things in our life that don’t reflect what we would say the Lord and our salvation means to us. We may be engaged in them without recognizing them for what they are. But when we do, we need to see them for what they are and then repent of them."

On today's episode: "Until my salvation became the treasure that it is, I couldn’t understand the urgency behind being concerned for another person’s salvation. It matters and my heart and stomach drop to think someone may have it all wrong and any of us who know better hold the truth and aren’t doing our part to point others the right way."

On today's episode: "Until our hearts break over our sinfulness and are full of suffocating sorrow over our broken humanity, we will never fully understand how desperately we need Jesus. We will never live our lives in true pursuit of what it looks like to follow Jesus. We will never grasp how incredible it is that our entire salvation is due to a tremendous gift that we did not earn and...

On today's episode: "We do this with other things in life, don’t we? We live our lives in constant pursuit of the next goal, achievement, accolade, event, or day. The anticipation of what’s to come keeps us holding on with hope and excitement. For things that really matter to us, we’re willing to do the hard work, to sacrifice, to do whatever is necessary to get us closer. For the really, really b...

On today's episode: "But it’s an important conversation because if we never address the elephant in the room, we might get so comfortable with sin’s presence that we desensitize ourselves to how destructive it is or how detestable it is to God. If we spend all of our time proclaiming the goodness of God without ever also addressing sin so that we can all repent and rid ourselves of it, it...

On today's episode: "Then, other times, which if I’m being honest is most of the time, He shows up in quiet moments like on a school field trip where the sun is breaking through the trees in a blinding way, as if to say “Peek-a-Boo! I see you!” It’s these moments when I have to catch my breath in gratitude that, as a Believer, His Holy Spirit lives within us so we can talk to Him as often...

On today's episode: "We absolutely must get to work as Christians, showing the world what we’re for and not so much what we’re against. Because eventually, when people get acquainted with the measureless love that comes from Jesus, they will want to know more and Jesus will work out those details and convictions. But how can we be successful in inspiring a curiosity for Jesus when what th...

On today's episode: "He isn’t going to wait to address you as that when you mature or take certain steps. He’s calling you by that today, right now, exactly as you are. Because He sees the true you and your potential."

On today's episode: "If we conducted a poll for how we expected our closest friends and family act, we might give a textbook answer. We expect kindness and loyalty and other common things. In reality, however, our expectations are actually much higher for those same people. If we flipped the script, often we don’t hold ourselves to those same impossible standards for how we demand others...