Forsake the basic. Pursue the deep.
One day my oldest daughter and I were eating lunch when she looked at the dead flowers sitting in a vase in the middle of the kitchen table. "Mommy, why do flowers die even when they’re in water?", she asked. "Because they aren’t planted in the ground." She then asked if the flowers knew they... Continue Reading →
Growth comes not from willing in our minds to grow but instead it comes from being challenged beyond what we are currently capable of. It comes from being stretched in ways that are increasingly uncomfortable and sometimes even torturous. When faced with circumstances that we have difficulty grasping, our natural tendency is to withdraw but... Continue Reading →
