The Fish Tank

"Give me a snowflake and I will believe God for an avalanche." Beth Moore Recently, I was watching Beth Moore preach. She talked about one morning when she woke up in the predawn hours thinking she heard rain. When she pulled back the curtains, she was surprised to see snowflakes. She was very excited about this (probably since she is from Houston) and decided to pray that God would bring more than just a few snowflakes. She prayed he would bring an avalanche. This example prompted two thoughts in me: How am I limiting God in my life? When our faith seems small (like a snowflake), God shows up big (like an avalanche). Too often, I limit my prayers, thus limiting God. I pray for the snowflake when he wants to give me the avalanche. I live in North Texas. If we are lucky, we may get one or two snow storms a year. Some winters we have nothing. While others, we can receive a foot of snow or debilitating ice storm. I am originally from Southern California so snow is exci...

I recently had a friend send me a link to an author's Facebook live. The topic was on dreams; the dreams we have and how to attain them. It's not a dream. It's a goal. BAM! Rachel Holis explained that dreams live in this far off unattainable land. Dreams are something you think about and wish could happen. In order to make dreams a reality, one must transition the verbiage from dream to goal. Whoa! This is SO simple but it was SO eye-opening for me. I can talk all day long about the dreams I have for myself and accomplish nothing but a high count of spoken word for the day. But, the moment I change my dream to a goal I now have something to work towards. I have talked about my dreams A LOT for the past three years. I talked about them with friends, my husband, and even wrote about them a time or two. It wasn't until the end of the summer that I finally transitioned my dreams to goals. And let me just tell you, that was kind of scary. I think we like to liv...

I decided to take a leap: a BIG leap. As I am maneuvering through the waters of this new adventure, I started asking myself why. Why am I putting myself out there like this? Why am I living my comfort zone? Why am I taking awkward videos of myself for all the world to see? Why? Because I want to create community. Life is a journey: a messy road where faith and life intersect. I want to create space for that mess. I want you to leave your dirty laundry on the floor and possibly step on some Legos. "Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing." 1 Thessalonians 5:11 My desire is to build a community where people can come together and be real, vulnerable, and raw without be judged or condemned. I want people to feel safe when they have questions about their faith because let's face it, this whole God thing can be hard and if you claim it's all sunshine and rainbows, you are a big fat liar. Here's what I am learning....