Author: The Journey

Manager’s Memo 3-24-23

If you have more questions than answers these days, you might have figured out the key to the test without realizing it. Maybe the questions are the answer. Maybe we have lived too long demanding to understand, before we walk forward in the things God tells us. We know we don’t have the answers, but it turns out, our willingness to live with so many questions is a big part of the answer we’re look

Manager’s Memo 3-13-23

Do you have any idea how much that God loves you? Like, without you doing anything? With an infant at home, we’ve discovered some beauty in the wee hours of the morning. Everything is quiet at 2 am. My husband Jerrod was reading to me from the book of Matthew and … here it is. Jesus is baptized and God said “This is my Beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.” Jerrod looked at me and asked, wh

Manager’s Memo 3-2-23

What yoke will you take on today? Yours which will be heavy? Or God’s yoke, which will be light. Don’t get me wrong, God leads us through hard things sometimes and we’ll wonder if we’re going to make it, like when I gave birth to my daughter, I literally resolved to die. But what’s crazy about the yoke of God’s verses mine, it’s like because someone is helping you carry your burdens. God is carryi

Manager’s Memo 2-23-23

You can make a vegan burger look just like the real thing, but until you taste it, you can’t tell. I have one complicated piano piece memorized, but if you ask me to play anything else, I will have a deer in the headlights look. In the same way, we can desire good for others, give generously and avoid evil things and … not necessarily be following Christ. How do we determine whose side we ar

Manager’s Memo 2-6-23

Waiting on God is hard. We struggle with waiting when we stop believing God has our best in mind. Years ago, my job was traveling around North Texas collecting money for the blind to have Christian materials. After being rejected at a business, I was super discouraged and crying in my car as I drove to the next place. On that drive, I randomly got a text from my brother Ryan, who I hadn’t heard fr

Manager’s Memo 1-23-23

Do we choose our destiny based on fear? Like “I don’t want to go to hell so (default) I’ll choose the happiness express to heaven instead”? I wish it were as simple as buying a ticket to a train but following Jesus is about not about choosing God out of fear, but because we love Him. When you truly realize just how much Jesus loves you, you can’t help but want to give your heart comple