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The Mercy That Changed Me: How God Uses Mercy to Transform Our Hearts

Part 4 of 8 in The Year God Redefined Contentment series If you’re just joining me, welcome! This post is part of an 8-part series chronicling what the Lord has been teaching me throughout my Year of Contentment. While each post can stand on its own, I encourage you to begin with: Part 1, then…
The Illusion of Control: Christian blog about surrendering fear, trusting God, and finding peace through Christ

The Illusion of Control: The Atmosphere I Never Meant to Create

Part 3 of 8 in The Year God Redefined Contentment “Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.” – Psalm 139:23-24 The illusion of control is one of the most convincing lies…

The Joy of Celebrating Someone Else’s Calling

Hello Friend! One of the unexpected gifts of this year has been learning how beautiful it is to celebrate what God is doing in someone else’s life. There was a time when I probably would have looked at someone else’s opportunity and quietly wondered, “Lord… when will it be my turn?” Not because I wasn’t…
A woman sits beside a winding path at sunrise, gazing toward a cross in the distance as she reflects on God's faithfulness. This image represents overcoming the orphan lie, healing from the fear of abandonment, and discovering security as a beloved daughter of God.

The Orphan Lie: How Fear Convinced Me I Was Alone

Part 2 of my 8-Part Series, The Year God Redefined Contentment Hello Friend! In the first post of this series, The Year God Redefined Contentment: When God Gives You a Word You Don’t Want, I shared how God spent the first half of 2026 teaching me about trust, surrender, mercy, and what it means to…
The Year God Redefined Contentment: a peaceful country path at sunrise symbolizing the journey of discovering contentment in Christ through trust, surrender, and God's faithful love.

The Year God Redefined Contentment: When God Gives You a Word You Don’t Want

Hello Friend! Contentment in Christ was not what I expected God to teach me when He gave me a word for 2026. At the end of 2025, God gave me a word I didn’t want. Contentment. The problem wasn’t the word itself. The problem was that I had received it before. As I prayed and…
Life After Deliverance Through Daily Intimacy With Jesus

When Deliverance Becomes the Doorway, Not the Destination

Hello Friend! Life after deliverance is not what many believers expect. While God can set us free in a moment, He often uses the sanctification process to teach us how to walk in that freedom daily. We live in a world obsessed with instant gratification. Everywhere we turn, we are conditioned to pursue quick fixes,…
Held by His Right Hand - discovering God's faithfulness and strength through every season

Held by His Right Hand: Discovering the God Who Holds Us Through Every Season

Hello Friend! Held by His Right Hand is more than a beautiful phrase found in Scripture-it is a powerful reminder that God’s strength, protection, and faithfulness sustain us through every season of life. During my Daily Encounter recently, I came across a phrase in Psalm 63 that made me pause in recognition: “I follow close…
Steady in the Middle Christian blog post about how to trust God in uncertainty, featuring a winding road and the quote 'What You Focus On Is What You Move Toward.

Steady in the Middle: What You Focus On Is What You Move Toward

Hello Friend! Lately, I’ve been learning how to trust God in uncertainty, something that hasn’t come naturally to me. There are things you learn early in life that seem simple at the time, until years later you realize just how deeply true they really are. For me, that realization came through something as simple as…
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Hemmed In and Sealed: Learning to Rest in the God Who Holds Me

Hello Friend! There are moments of reading Scripture when one word doesn’t just stand out… it settles into a place in your heart, you didn’t realize was still wounded. That is exactly what happened to me recently while reading Ephesians 1. As I was reading about being chosen, adopted, and redeemed, one phrase stopped me…