He Restores My Soul

We are SO excited to feature a guest post from Renee Clanton, one of our featured speakers at this year’s Single Moms Retreat, happening June 2-3 in Alexandria, Minnesota (find all the details here!). Today, Renee talks about how we can turn to God when the storms of...

The Hidden Thought Life

Justification. Reasoning through our human nature. These are very real areas in which we humans struggle all too often. We don’t like to talk about it. We don’t like to admit it. Yet the struggle is real in our thought life, both sexual and non-sexual. Oftentimes, we...

#PrayforParis

I was driving home from the dry cleaner when I heard the news blip on the radio. Something bad had happened in Paris, and there were hostages. Oh no. It couldn’t be affecting any of “My Frenchies,” could it? I immediately began to pray. Oh God, protect the innocent....

Faith, Family, Football

I forget. I always forget. Then something like Saturday afternoon’s homecoming game featuring a double reverse pass play brings me back to reality. Watching the gridiron team of my alma mater, I was mesmerized early in the game, still in the first quarter, when my...

Harpooned

This morning I woke up to a dream. It was strange. In my dream, I was walking alongside a friend who had a harpoon going straight through her body. For a bit, I walked alongside her, taking in the whole image and then, I reached out a hand onto her shoulder and began...