The Good Day

Scott Conrad is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, serving in LifeCare Ministries Counseling at Crossings Community Church in OKC. If you or a loved one is enduring mental health challenges, this episode is for you. It is our prayer you will find hope from hearing Scott’s unique perspective, shaped by both his professional and personal journey with this. Know you don’t have to struggle alon...

Shiann Wickam currently serves patients as an RN in Oklahoma. Her very first assignment out of nursing school, to her surprise, was at a Covid-19 hospital. Though her experience eventually led to travel nursing, this initial assignment allowed her to see God placed her there to care and pray for these patients who were very sick and extremely isolated. Today, we’re talking about: The necessity of...

Heather Brown is the energetic podcaster, writer, online mama cheerleader and healthy living advocate behind the brand & podcast Healthy by Heather Brown. She and her college sweetheart hubby Eric live in Bham, AL with two young boys. Since starting blogging 14 years ago, Heather is privileged to reach over a million women each year, and runs her podcast and business with a team where they dai...

Ever wonder why God gave you a specific gift and/or talent? Sure, He has something for you to do with it but is it bigger than that? 100000% For this reason (which we'll get to soon enough), I've been asking the people around me about their gifts and talents. What does their gift have to do with me and you? So glad you asked! That's where we're starting - the why behind it all. P.S. Thanks so much...

It's that time again... time to share the stories we've read and wisdom we've gained in the last year. I continued my commitment to read at least one book a month, and now I want to share my favorites with you. C A N D A C E  C O F E R author + speaker ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠  |  ⁠⁠⁠instagram⁠⁠⁠  |  ⁠⁠⁠youtube⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠facebook⁠

The weary world rejoices - these words from the familiar Christmas hymn are ones I've held close in recent years. I gather strength from this reminder, this command from scripture to rejoice. Rejoice now, it tells me. For it's not "the redeemed world rejoices" but the weary world who does the rejoicing, the world weary in waiting. Weary from what seems like a prolonged coming, a prolonged advent....

If you've been following along with us this Christmas, you know we're looking at the genealogy of Christ, traveling back to Genesis with Adam , last week to Noah and now we're going to pause at Genesis 12 with Abraham. In Genesis 12, we see the unwrapping of grace - the very order of grace. C A N D A C E  C O F E R author + speaker ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠  |  ⁠⁠⁠instagram⁠⁠⁠  |  ⁠⁠⁠youtube⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠face...

Christmas, though we associate with jolly music, decadent recipes, colorful packages with shiny ribbon, and celebration, is not the absence of pain. Christmas is not the absence of suffering. And if you're thinking, "Okay, but my heart is broken in two. This pain I feel is real. It's overwhelming. If there's a God who feels, a God who cares, wouldn't He see the injustice of the world and His heart...

Finding the perfect Christmas tree - we consider the size, notably the height, volume of branches, spacing of branches to ensure there are no gaps between the branches, the hue of green, the touch of the pine, whether we want real or artificial, and if artificial then pre-lit or not, as well as assembly and disassembly. What none of us imagine, what none of us have in mind is a stump. But, this is...

November to me is summarized most plainly and festively as "Fall-la-la-la" - the time when seasons merge, both pumpkins and maybe trees. By no effort of my own, only through means of a gift received, there is fudge in the fridge. Fudge, of all things, has been our first sign of the holidays this year. The anticipation of Christmas just around the bend. And soon conversations move from the tree to...

Peace is not something we can create, it is always a gift. And as my friend, Sarah Geringer, is reminding us this week, we are surrounded by invitations to experience God’s presence and His peace. Do we see them? Do we receive them? Sarah is a writer, speaker, podcaster, artist, book launch manager, creative coach, and author of six books, including Hidden Manna on a Country Road: Seeing God’s Dai...

Kaitlyn Fielder is the author of What Now?: Finding Renewed Life in Christ After Loss and is sharing her story of how God has worked in her life, bringing her healing, through catastrophic loss when her parents and all but one sibling were killed in a car accident when she was a young girl. She is a wife and mom of two based in SC and is currently pursuing her masters degree in Clinical Mental Hea...

Whitney Akin is the author of Overlooked: Finding Your Worth When You Feel All Alone and spends her days raising three kids with her husband, Eli, outside of Atlanta, Georgia. She's joining to remind us we serve the God who sees and how we can live with godly confidence and purpose. Whitney's heart is to see and celebrate the purpose and potential of the overlooked and invite them to live seen by...

This year, it's a bit different - a picture in a picture. Black and white, no color. It's tiny, hard to see. Something only modern-day technology has allowed us to see. And though we've taken many pictures this year, capturing our adventures abroad over the summer and ordinary but sacred moments we've shared at home, this is our picture of thankfulness this year... C A N D A C E  C O F E R author...

Heather Creekmore is the author of Compared to Who? and The Burden of Better. We’re diving into the latter so we can find a way off the treadmill of constant comparison. Heather's sharing how she’s reclaimed God’s peace and freedom from comparison, specifically on the topic of body image. I’ll tell ya, Heather is so fun and so relatable! Get this, she was on the pilot episode of Netflix’s hit show...

Courtney Cartwright shares a storm she and her husband endured soon after they said, “I do.” Instead of preparing for growing their family, they found themselves holding this dream loosely as Courtney was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. As a new believer, the peace she experienced was something she did not understand. She knew it wasn’t something she created. It was indeed a miracle. Courtney is a...

What about those times when the downpour won’t stop? When it’s back-to-back _____. You fill in the blank. For Gretchen Leech, it was back-to-back battles with cancer for her husband. The storm intensified as she was a caretaker of not just her husband but also their 3-year-old and 8-month-old children while her husband battled cancer for nearly 3 years.  None of these things did she sign up for, b...

How do we know God’s peace when the reality before us is not what we wanted? Scripture speaks of “peace that passes all understanding” but does it cover these complex circumstances, too? The Sunday school answer is “yes” but sometimes it feels very much like a “no” when we are the one in the struggle. This week, my friend, Joy Marker, is joining us to talk about her journey with a chronic autoimmu...

Could God use our extremely un-peaceful circumstances to bring us into a deeper peace than we have ever known? My friend, Lori Ann Wood, is nodding an adamant “YES!” with this. Lori is a lifelong Christian, an unlikely writer, and a heart failure survivor. After enduring this health detour, she wrote, Divine Detour: The Path You’d Never Choose Can Lead to the Faith You’ve Always Wanted , for the b...

Candace Carroll, after walking through the big decision of trading her corporate job in recruiting for her passion for art, is joining us to share how she was able to trust God and experience His peace in this career move. Candace is a very talented impressionist painter living in North Georgia. Working out of her barn studio, she paints abstracts, florals, landscapes and anything else that evokes...

Megan is the author of Permission to Walk and also enjoys blogging with a heart for discipleship; she writes, speaks, and teaches women about enjoying God in each busy day as the Women's Director at her church in middle Tennessee. She’s joining us this week to shine a light on our tendency to lean towards not just a hurried schedule or a hurried day but a “hurried heart.” Today, we're talking abou...

Celebrating 4 years together with... buttered toast?! Well, you're gonna have to listen to understand why. I'm humbled and so thankful to have YOU on this journey with me. I pray through this offering of mine you come to realize the power of a story and realize YOUR story matters. It matters deeply to God and He is in your story. Take courage my friend, for the days ahead - He is with you always....

As my friend, Maegan Krisa, points out - like a recipe for a favorite sandwich, Psalm 117 is a recipe for praising the Lord. This psalm serves as a reminder our praise can come in all different sizes. Maegan is a dear friend of mine, one who I have had the pleasure of co-leading a small group with, who has continually blown me away with her heart for and knowledge of the Word of God and her desire...

Evelyn J. Johnson is sharing her experience with this through her reflection of Psalm 110 to remind us where our help comes from - not just for the end of the battle, but when the battle is raging. A still, small voice guided her each step - literally, each step - of the way, and friend, this voice is available for us, too. Evelyn J. Johnson is the Founder of Joy’s Circle to coach, encourage and e...

My friend, Susan Shultz, is sharing her reflection of Psalm 103 with us today and reminding us of where all these Psalms began. Before the ink was on the paper, the inspiration came not as David and the other psalmists rushed through time with the Lord, but as they tarried in His presence - as they stayed longer than intended. When we need to be refilled - when we feel the excitement of purpose be...