In this holiday season just after Thanksgiving, it can cause us to reflect on what we have for a day and then forget about it. We go from thanking the Lord and others for their impact on our lives, thankful for family, friends, etc. Then we focus on what we can get from others during the Christmas season. Perhaps the spirit of thankfulness could become a daily practice so that Thanksgiving can become almost like an ordinary day and Christmas can be about what we can give inst

Unknown’s are scary. There is something so symbolic about doors, the way they open and close breed a sort of finality in one singular breath. They promise you don’t have to stay locked inside the confines of what has always shackled you. They promise that goodness is not something that will be worn out, that sometimes the next step is the hardest step. They provide a whisper of hope, one that gives you the opportunity to become something new, to step into a season of life tha

“Squeaky wheel gets the grease.” That is an old saying my mom used to say to me, and while I didn’t want to hear it as a child, it instilled one of the biggest life lessons people today lack. Why are we so afraid to ask for help? It started with me being unable to find a CD at Target and wanting my mom to ask an employee to find it. But she would say that phrase and I knew that meant I had to ask. I was shy and didn’t want to ask for help, but like she said, “If you want it b