When you look in the mirror, do you find yourself applying mental labels? Have you ever fallen into thinking about it again and again, in an endless loop?
I have. Some days I’ve been prideful. “I’m beautiful,” I’d tell myself. “Wow, I am smart.”
Other days, I’ve drowned in self-pity. “I’m ugly.” “I’m so dumb.”
Can you relate?
We have come to the end of our prayer series. We’ve talked about prayer motives, prayer prioritization, and persevering in prayer. Now we are going to conclude with three prayers we sometimes forget to pray–I know I have, at least. There are many different kinds of prayers and very many things we can pray about….
God Hears Once, there was a woman named Hannah. She had a husband who loved her, but no children. And her husband’s other wife would “provoke her grievously to irritate her” (1 Samuel 1:6, ESV) because of this. It went on year after year. All Hannah wanted was a child, but she remained barren for…
The reason why we don’t pray as often as Daniel is not because we’re too busy. It’s because we don’t make prayer a priority.
I used to view prayer as mystical and unreliable. People always say that prayer moves mountains, but it seemed that mountains weren’t really being moved. It was hard for me to comprehend how prayer actually worked. If one Christian prayed for something to happen, and another prayed for it to not happen, what would God…
Once upon a time, Talia (age 3) did not like baths. If you tried to give her a bath, she would scream and cry. She would hang her head over the side of the tub so you couldn’t wash her hair. It used to be a fight to get her to take a bath. But…
This Sunday will mark one year from my first post on my blog (which, back then, was in Blogger instead of WordPress). I originally started it to help me learn to write consistently after hearing Jaquelle Ferris’s (who was then Jaquelle Crowe) story of how starting a blog helped her. My first post was called…
Hello! Today I’m doing a blog swap with my friend, Emily, who I met through American Heritage Girls. She is also a fellow member of the Young Writer’s Workshop (I roped her in ;)) and recently started blogging at More Than a Church Kid. You probably know the drill by now: by “blog swap,” I…
I’ve struggled with it. You’ve struggled with it. We all have. Does God really exist? Billions of people think that the Bible is false, and Christians are sometimes tempted to believe them. Jesus can start to look like a fairytale at times because of how bad the world around us is. “Is God real?” This…
Hello! Today I am swapping blogs with Hannah, a fellow member of the Young Writer’s Workshop and the blogger at His Priceless Daughters. That means that I’m posting something she wrote on my blog, and she’s posting something that I wrote on her blog. Without further ado, here is Hannah’s article: “Learning to See Your…