Sorrow isn’t comfortable, but it can become familiar.
And when hope wells up unbidden within us?
Sometimes fear can quench it before it gets a chance to spill over.
Today?
I dare you to let laughter come unbidden.
We have a reason to Hope again.

As Christians, we sometimes have this strange tendency to just sit back and accept circumstances as if all things that happen to us are specifically ordained by God. The danger in this way of thinking is that we can fall into a victim mentality and we can distort who God is and actually steer away from who He made us to be. We sometimes get the idea that if God wanted us to pursue a dream, or do something specific – that all the doors should just fling wide and we should just end up there. But what if this is incredibly far from the truth?

…Today I want to call out dreams in you that have been sitting dormant. Dreams that have been splattered across asphalt. Dreams that have been crushed. Dreams that have been replaced. Even dreams that we assumed God had said “no” to because we ran into some closed doors.

Can I give you permission to dream again?

It all begins with an idea.

What makes a Mother?


Maybe it’s more than pregnancy announcements and baby showers.
More than labour pains and sleepless nights.

More than reading story books and wiping tears. 


Maybe a Mother is made not necessarily by the growing of a babe in her womb, but by the growth that happens in her heart. 
Maybe a Mother is formed in the longing and in the waiting, in the loving and in the losing, in the nurturing and loving and laying down your life for another. 
Maybe a Mother is formed in letting her heart so expand in love that it feels like it will burst, knowing that she can get hurt, but choosing love anyways.