It’s easy (and trendy) to get caught up in sugar cookies, Elf on the Shelf, and “All I Want for Christmas is You” by Mariah Carey. But where do we stand with presents? Do they add to or take away from the real Reason for the season?

For those thrown involuntarily into the fire…

When we remember the Bible heroes BACKSTORIES instead of only their highlight reels? Well, we can realize God’s fashioning fiery faith in our ordinary backstories too.💛

Anyone else saying to OUR CIRCUMSTANCES what Elisha’s servant said to HIS? “Oh, what will we do NOW?”😩 (2 Kings 6:15) Whatever will we do as a nation, as Christians, as mothers NOW?

Our girls can RATTLE off the Disney princesses... but how many know the stories of the Bible Belles? You know, Deborah, Hannah, Abigail + maybe Ruth and Esther too?

Whatever 2020 took, whatever you lost + can’t get back, that specific set-back, pain or fruitlessness of yesteryear—REMEMBER who you serve: the God who restores the years the locust has eaten.