Rain is needed for us to grasp the significance of the sun.

Rain teaches me how love can change everything.

Rain provides a necessary opportunity to embrace the uncomfortable in my life.

A letter to my daughter, to mark a moment when one thing ended and led to something greater.

Today, my two-year old taught me a refresher course in perspective.

The morning came. And it changed everything. The mourning ended. Light broke through the darkness.

I don’t want to miss the mourning and sorrow that then prepares my heart for the hope of Sunday.

Over the years, the truth found within those words have been a balm for my own sorrow filled and weary heart.

Even as I find myself in shadow, I know with the same certainty that I know my children will be hungry soon; there is hope.

Years of striving for perfection left me feeling defeated, full of frustration, dealing with a major procrastination habit, and the belief that I was not enough.

I wanted to dance but didn’t know how.

What a privilege that I get to carry this child God has entrusted to me. I get to be a source of comfort. I get to carry her burdens.

When the storms come in life, and they will come, what will carry me through?

He loves you. He came to demonstrate that. He died to prove that to you. He considers you worthy of such sacrifice.

How wonderful it is, when we do not even know ourselves, to be searched and known by God.

DELIGHT. He takes pleasure in us, his children, his creation, his image bearers.

The more you put if off, the harder it becomes to deal with.

It’s an invitation that perhaps you need to hear today as well.

The last few seconds of an exhale before a deep inhale as the new year began.

Today I want to share with you some of my favourite things that help me not feel so bad.