Honesty

It was my second visit to the small Odessa, Texas store. My husband and I were visiting his family and I remembered loving the knick knacks and cute decorations in the store. I was anxious to get [...]

A tall girl clutching a few sheets of stapled paper picked up her longboard and waved to us to follow her. It was humid and a handful of us followed her closely through the crowd and into the [...]

When I was learning to ride a bike, I couldn’t quite get the hang of it. I was frustrated in the grass in our front yard, and every time I tried, I failed. I was so mad that I wasn’t focused [...]

My dog barks at shoe polish. You read that right. He growls and barks and his hair stands up when he sees shoe polish. A few months ago, I was cleaning a closet in our apartment and sorting [...]

“Hey guys, I have something I need to tell you.”   The silence thereafter inflated into the space between us. It floated awkwardly like a “Happy Birthday” balloon in the middle of a funeral. [...]

Why are you doing this? Out of emotion? Because of something in the past? Because you don’t like your present state? What makes you want to do this?   When we are covered in anger, or [...]

Do we really want to get well? Do you really want to overcome an addiction? Isn’t it so much easier to live with it than to spend all this time fighting it? The way I hear it played out by [...]

We need to speak up! What do we do when we don’t have the strength to overcome anymore? Do we continue to figure out new ways to fight against our addiction/temptation/struggle? Maybe we feel [...]

Are you dedicated to your craft or consumed by addiction?   I’m just starting to realize that what a lot of people call their “career” “passion” or “desire” can often times be [...]

Conviction. It’s a way for the Lord to connect with our hearts, and let us know that what we are doing is not right. It’s our inner being; our soul that is being tugged on. We know what we are [...]