trust

Higher Than My Thoughts

Scripture Focus: “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.” — Isaiah 55:8 Have you ever tried to put together a puzzle without looking at the picture on the box? At first, it may seem simple enough. You find the corner pieces, separate the colors, and confidently…
The Danger of “Good Enough”

Have you ever found yourself wanting something for another person more than they seem to want it for themselves? Perhaps you’ve watched someone remain in a relationship that continually hurts them, or you’ve encouraged a friend to pursue an opportunity they keep talking themselves out of. Maybe you’ve prayed earnestly for someone to draw closer…
The First Concern

A few days ago, I witnessed a scene in a grocery store that has stayed with me. A young mother was standing in the checkout line with three small children. The youngest, perhaps four years old, was helping place items on the conveyor belt. It made me smile. I thought to myself, Boy, you don’t…
When the Road Disappears Into Fog

There’s something deeply comforting about the fact that some of the greatest people of faith in Scripture were not people who always understood what God was doing. We sometimes imagine faith as fearless certainty where a person never wrestles, never grows weary, and never questions anything. But when you read the life of Abraham, you…
When My Way Isn’t His Way

Scripture Focus: Proverbs 3:5–6 “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.” There’s something about the word lean that feels familiar. It’s what we naturally do. We lean on what we know, what we’ve experienced, what…
The Quiet Power of Choice

Our victories and failures, our joys and sorrows, the rises and the falls of our lives are all connected, in one way or another, to the choices we make. Life is not built in a single moment, but in thousands of small decisions, many so ordinary we barely notice them. The direction of our family…
Planned… but Led

Proverbs 16:9 “A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.” Proverbs 16:9 speaks straight into the tension most of us live with every day—the pull between making plans and trusting God. We wake up with calendars, lists, intentions, and ideas about how the day should go. And Scripture doesn’t scold that…
Self-Seeking and Christ-Seeking: Two Paths, Two Outcomes

Scripture whispers and warns that two paths run through every life: one curved inward toward self, and one turned outward and upward toward Christ. The difference between them is not always loud or obvious—but it is always decisive. Throughout Scripture, self-seeking and Christ-seeking are presented not merely as attitudes, but as opposing principles of life.…
When Trust Walks Ahead of Evidence

There’s something sacred about sitting beside a fire and talking honestly about the kind of love that doesn’t make headlines—the kind shown not in poetic declarations, but in everyday decisions that cost us something. And as I’ve been thinking about that quiet, faithful love, another intertwined theme keeps rising to the surface: trust. Not the…
The Shape of Thanks in the Unseen

Gratitude sometimes arriveswithout a face—a ripple moving through the darkas if an unseen winghad brushed the surface of our world. It is a soundless thing,like color underwater,or a lantern floating upwardwithout fire. It walks the corridorsbetween what is lostand what is not yet born,gathering fragments—a forgotten warmth,a pulse of light,a name we once whispered in…