Sometimes as we see news, social media, shoot, just life being life — joy feels impossible, at best, and maybe even inconsiderate, at worst. How can I continue on hoping and happy when so much evil and loss and heartbreak is happening around me or to me? Scott Sauls, senior pastor of my church here […]

I bet it doesn’t take long for your critical mind’s eye to conjure up a time when you felt insecure in your body.  Whatever the memory, whatever the scale or the season, all of us are haunted at points by the “not ______ enough’s” or the “too _________’s” about our bodies.  This week’s guests know […]

What baggage, what wounds, what regrets continue to hold you back from the more you know you’re made for? What parts of your life do you keep frantically sweeping under the rug for fear your followers or family or God, or worse, your own self will reject you if they only knew? Naomi Raine – Grammy […]

Not one of us is immune to losses, failures – you name it – the regular human struggles of life. So, the question is not how do we avoid them, but how do persevere and grow and even create beautiful things in their wake? You know that I know how tough fighting despair with joy […]

What’s that one dream you’re shelving because you’re afraid it’s too big, too expensive, or too out there?   What’s the phone call that’s eating away at you to make, but you’re so scared that the voice on the other end may not want to reconcile?   What’s the really hard truth you need to […]

Have you recently had a dream or season you loved stolen too soon? Or maybe you’ve been thrust into a new opportunity or phase that, though wonderful, feels totally disorienting and overwhelming? Actress and singer Laura Osnes has found herself in some deep waters over the course of her 15-year career, some miraculously exciting and […]

Do you find yourself constantly wishing time away or looking to next best thing? Are you genuinely trying to be present but, like me, continue failing to just “be where you are?”   I’m a doer. A dreamer. I crave forward motion. But have I been missing the joys of today because my eyes are […]

Are you tired of waiting on that dream to be answered or that desire to be fulfilled? Would you give anything to feel a little joy in the waiting yet just keep fielding disappointment after disappointment?   This week’s amazing guest gets you on every level!   Annie F. Downs knows the feelings of longing […]

Isn’t one of the hardest parts of this human life that we actually have so much less control over it than we think we do? The world is broken, people fail us, accidents and illnesses and hard things happen every day, and they’re pretty much out of our hands. I know this on a deeply […]