You read that right! Failure is necessary. With my current job, I have the opportunity to pray as well as ponder over things as I go about my day. This past week was filled with the repercussions of decisions made out of panic and procrastination, all of which had taken a toll on me. I found myself repeating the same thing to different people: “This is all on me. It’s an epic fail.” At different moments this week, I’ve wanted to lock the door and hope that eventually someone

"And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord."Luke 1:45 I'm part of the "not yet 50" club, so because of that I sometimes like to tell myself I can still do things that I did in my early twenties through my mid-thirties. This weekend I learned a hard lesson. Gone are the nights of staying up all night with friends and being productive the next day. Yep, that's over. I was so happy when two of my best fri

If you have a rock or a stone nearby, get ready to throw it. This week, as I was driving around, I thought about little David—that shepherd boy who grew up to become a man after God's own heart. I thought about him and how Jesse had sent him down to the battle to check on his brothers. He didn't go looking for a fight. His father gave him a job to do, and he was doing it. David, even in his youth, saw the scene for what it really was: a battle. So he questioned what was being