When You Think Receiving Grace is Too Difficult
September 7, 2026
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For a lot of years of my adult life, receiving race did not come easily to me. Even today, I catch myself starting to brush
For a lot of years of my adult life, receiving race did not come easily to me. Even today, I catch myself starting to brush
There was a season in my life when I stopped praying. It wasn’t really a conscious decision. I just quietly withdrew, the way you might
I have a friend who knows me well enough to tell me hard things. The relationship we’ve built over years of showing up for each
At the beginning of this month about God’s favor, I asked myself two questions that I wasn’t entirely sure I knew how to answer. How
I am, by nature, a somewhat task-oriented person. I like lists. I like progress. I like the satisfaction of moving something from the undone column
I had a picture in my mind of what God’s abundance would look like when it arrived. Margin in my schedule. Breathing room in the
There are times when you say, “Yes” and pay an immediate price before you ever see what it produces. I said one of those yeses
A few years ago someone told me I was a good encourager. Not a writer, not a speaker. An encourager. Honestly, my first reaction was
I grew up hearing the word obedience in contexts that made it feel heavy. Do this. Don’t do that. Follow the rules or face the
For a long time, I believed that God’s favor was something you earned. Not theologically, of course. I knew better than that. But the way
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