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In-Between Seasons
What do you do when the life you knew no longer fits, but the next season has not yet come into focus? The in-between can feel uncertain, but it may also be the place where God is healing, reshaping, and preparing you for what comes next.

Marla Waldron
1 day ago6 min read


When You’re Tired of Being Strong
When you’re tired of being strong, God isn’t asking you to pretend you’re fine. He’s inviting you to bring Him the weariness before it turns into giving up.

Barb Lownsbury
Jul 35 min read


What Story Are You Believing?
Sometimes the hardest part of a trial isn't the circumstance itself—it's the story we begin telling ourselves about God. What if your setback isn't evidence of His absence, but the very place He's strengthening your faith?

Marla Waldron
Jun 265 min read


Stand Firm
Standing firm is not about having perfect balance or complete confidence. It is about trusting God enough to take the next step, even when the bridge beneath you feels unsteady.
Mary Giesen
Jun 205 min read


Something Worth Insisting Upon
The battle has always been fought in the mind. It's as if Paul is looking straight at me and saying, "Girl, it's time to change. Let go of the guilt, the shame, the fear, and the need for control. Stop defining yourself by broken worldly systems. Change your thinking."

Barb Lownsbury
Jun 136 min read


How to Release What No Longer Serves You
Holding onto what is merely good can prevent you from embracing what is truly great.

Barb Lownsbury
May 294 min read


Shine Stories: Pain Does Not Get the Final Word
Sometimes what feels like breaking is actually the beginning of becoming.

Erin Owens
May 225 min read


Shine Stories: The First Step Toward Freedom
I’d never been through that kind of pain. It took my breath away from the inside out, leaving me hollow and empty, gasping for air and answers.

Barb Lownsbury
May 156 min read


Shine Stories: One Step at a Time
I did not need to solve my whole life at once. I just needed the courage to take the next step with God.

Jeri Silver
May 87 min read


Shine Stories: Light in the Tunnel
I have learned that I cannot continuously give away pieces of who I am to appease other people. The priority has to be, first and foremost, “I am God’s child, God’s prize possession,” and I have to accept who God tells me that I am. The tunnel did not get the final word; God did, and God’s truth became the light that led me forward.

Marla Waldron
May 16 min read


Keep Running
The call is not always to run faster, but to keep running. Even a slow, halting step forward is still faithfulness.

Marla Waldron
Apr 185 min read


When Being the Victim Keeps You From Healing
Freedom began when I stopped asking only who hurt me and started asking God what he wanted to heal in me.

Barb Lownsbury
Apr 116 min read


When the Enemy Knocks at the Door of My Thoughts
My defeats don’t define me; Jesus alone defines me, and he calls me his beloved. Without qualifiers.

Barb Lownsbury
Mar 276 min read


The Mind of Christ: Humility as the Path to Unity
Humility as the path to unity sounds beautiful in theory, but in practice it becomes holy work.

Barb Lownsbury
Mar 138 min read


Enemies Made Family: the Power of Reconciliation
So how on earth did we go from crazy and broken to close and supportive? Let me tell ya, it's quite a story.

Barb Lownsbury
Feb 279 min read


The Bond of Love & Peace: Protecting Unity
I’m learning that it’s possible to disagree without sowing discord, even though the internet would have me believe otherwise.

Morgan Benner
Feb 205 min read


Misery and Mercy
Is misery ever necessary? Could God be protecting us from something we cannot yet see?

Marla Waldron
Jan 94 min read


God is Writing Your Story
That same God—the One who faithfully wrote the story of salvation—is writing your story, too.

Marla Waldron
Dec 27, 20254 min read


Advent Love: The Gift That Stays
Advent tells a different story: Love entered the imperfect and chose to come close.

Marla Waldron
Dec 19, 20253 min read


Joy Down in My Heart: Finding Joy Beyond Circumstances
Joy isn’t found in the absence of suffering, but in remembering who Jesus is and what He has done for us.

Morgan Benner
Dec 12, 20254 min read
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