All Things Work Together for Good…Really?

I have often read the verse that states, “All things God works for the good of those who love him” (Romans 8:28). While it is a sentence that I should embrace, I looked at it as a platitude that I said but truly did not believe. I recently had the experience of seeing...

Flourishing in Trust

Trust is the currency of every relationship, including our relationship with Father God. I think about the day two years ago when the doctor told me I had an aggressive form of breast cancer. I listened silently to the words being spoken as numbness entered my body. I...

Shine On: An Adoption Story

Our daughter came to us through tumultuous circumstances. My husband and I had been licensed foster parents for a month when we got the call to take a sweet baby girl, just three months old. She was physically healthy, in an emergency home for the time being, but they...