help and hope for living on purpose for the sake of Jesus
We had a “prayer brunch” for the women at our church on Saturday. “Prayer brunch” might lead one to think, “Women in their pretty dresses, bringing in warm breakfast casseroles, a lot of talking and maybe a little bit of prayer.” Other than the “warm breakfast casseroles” part, the other couldn’t be farther from the …
I swept the Christmas cookies, candy wrappers, and crumbs from the classroom floor after the party as this fleeting thought swept through my mind, “Of my twenty-seven students, only a few of them said, ‘thank you,’ for the Christmas pencils, erasers, and stamps I gave them.” That thought was quickly replaced with, “Well, I guess …
As my beautiful friend sat across my dining room table from me, the words eventually tumbled out: “I have never been ‘enough’ for my parents. Not good enough. Not hard-working enough. Not successful enough. Not wise enough. I was good. The things I did were good—just not good enough.” What I saw was quite the …