Contentment

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Known & Loved: How Psalm 139 Revealed the Father’s Heart

  Part 5 of 8 in The Year God Redefined Contentment series If you’re just joining me, I encourage you to begin with the previous posts in this series, as each one builds upon the last. In Part 1, God began redefining what contentment truly means. In Part 2 exposed the orphan lie that fear had…
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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 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…
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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…
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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…
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From Psalm 54 to the Holy Spirit: The Nearness of God Our Helper

Hello Friend! There are moments when a single line in Scripture doesn’t just speak… it settles. That’s what happened when I read: “God is my helper.” – Psalm 54:4 That simple truth-God is my helper-I’ve read before, but this time it felt different. Not distant. Not just something to understand, but something to experience. It…
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Grace Is Enough: When Weakness No Longer Defines Your Identity

Hello Friend! There was a time when I quietly carried what felt like a scarlet letter, and I struggled to believe that grace is enough for me. Not outwardly.Not in a way others could always see. But internally, it marked me. It whispered: You’ve gone too far.You’ve done too much.You’re disqualified from walking in the…
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Why Some Tables Leave You Empty (And What God Might Be Inviting You Into)

Hello Friend! There was a season in my life where I would leave “girls nights” feeling… empty. And I didn’t yet have the language for it, but I was beginning to understand why some tables leave you empty. Not because there wasn’t laughter.Not because there wasn’t fun. There was plenty of both. But beneath the…
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Create in Me a Clean Heart: Learning Contentment Through Abiding in God’s Mercy

Hello Friend! Psalm 51 captures one of those moments in Scripture, where David cries out to God with a prayer many believers still pray today: “Create in me a clean heart, O God.” There are seasons in the Christian life when God begins gently revealing the deeper places of our hearts. Not to shame us.Not…