This morning I woke up suddenly and started with my morning prayer before realizing it was only 1:30 am. I am learning that when I get the opportunity to be awake at odd hours, it’s generally an invitation to prayer, confession, and realigning with God’s presence. As I thought about different people I wanted to pray for, I remembered that I hadn’t answered a text message yesterday from my pastor asking how I was doing. “Fine” or “good” – or worse, “good under the circumstance

I am in awe of all the ways God, our Creator, designed from before the creation of the world, in all the things He made long before anyone walked the earth, to draw us to Himself and lavish us with so many ways to see Him, others, and ourselves in relationship with Him! In Romans chapter 1 Paul writes that “since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they a

This morning I woke up to parts of two different songs playing in my head – sleepy, but wanting to hear what was coming next (after drifting back to sleep a time or two!) I grabbed my laptop and phone and looked up the songs. Micah Tyler popped up when I typed the chorus: “When the Devil Come Try to Get Me Gonna Praise the Lord…” The images in the music video got me grinning ear to ear in less than 10 seconds. When he got to the dentist chair, I almost laughed out loud! This