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Jesus runs to the mess

Life is messy, sometimes overwhelmingly so. Our lives don’t often end up neatly packaged and orderly. We have an idea of...

Where do you go when everything hurts, when your feelings overwhelm you? We can only hold our emotions in for so long before we burst. L...

I had been going for weeks with no break — unless you include the four hours a night I crashed in my bed. My schedule consisted of ...

The year’s accumulation of stress, fatigue, and discouragement slowly lift as our destination comes into view. The whole family beg...

Grandma left a voicemail saying, “We’ll be eating at one o’clock.” I got a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach...

As a teacher, everyday can feel like one of “those days.” A typical day at school includes: morning bus duty, parent c...

I don’t like dealing with things. There, I said it. I hate crying and getting emotional, and so most of the time I prefer to pus...

I was in the thick of the yucky (and unexpected) first trimester of pregnancy — exhausted, sick, nauseated all day long — wit...

When spring arrives, we get the urge to clean. We air things out, sweep corners, scrub floors, wash the windows, and toss the past date f...

Sitting on the floor in the hot shower, tears streamed down my face with the same intense force as the water from the spigot above me. I ...

Some of you are in the middle of overwhelming circumstances. You are in a fight for your life. It's hard to see how God will deliver ...