Purposeful Living

How God Uses Brokenness in Your Life to Touch Others

The sun rises salmon over a row of spindly pines, and I stare out the window with an ache in my abdomen.  We’ve walked through our fair share of challenges throughout the past months, and I feel a little too weak – a little too broken – to do anything other than sit in this silence and ponder it all.  I’m thinking about how God uses brokenness to shape us to the image of Christ when a message appears on my phone.

A new friend who lives on the other side of town wants to get together for coffee.

She tells me she doesn’t know much about God and that she’d like to know more.

To finish reading how this conversation turned out, join me here, at my friend Lo Tanner’s blog, Laced with Purpose . . .

A Free Resource for Your Brokenness

God wants to lift your head.  Learn how to turn to him for hope and healing by downloading a free chapter of my book, Lean Into Grace.  This chapter will help you process your emotions and bring your broken heart to God for healing.  This chapter “Crying in the Bathroom,” is yours for free with promo code GRACE right here today.

Calling all moms and daughters!

Additionally, my teen daughter, Bekah, and I are passionate about helping moms and daughters grow closer while connecting with God.  We have written two mother-daughter devotionals together.  Girl to Girl: 60 Mother-Daughter Devotions for a Closer Relationship and Deeper Faith is written for girls ages 7-12. It includes 60 devotions with Scripture, conversation starters, and a shared journaling section after each devotion.

Heart to Heart: A Mother-Daughter Devotional With 50 Devotions for Teen Girls is for teenage girls ages 13-20.  It includes 50 devotions, each with a shared journaling section to help moms and daughters connect through writing.  This is a great book for moms who want to communicate about awkward topics—like dating, purity, peer pressure, and more—but don’t know where to start.  We will help you!

Multitudes of mothers, daughters, mentors, and younger women are being transformed by these books!  You can buy them as paperbacks or get your free Kindle Unlimited eBooks on Amazon right here.

Are you running on empty? Are you ready to encounter God in deeper ways in the quiet moments of your days? Would you like to fan the flame of faith in your life so that it becomes a raging fire?  If so, let me offer you one of my free online devotional books.  This list of devotionals offers the inspiration you need, regardless of your current season of life.  Click here to view the full list.

 

I’m passionate about equipping others to encounter God in powerful and life-changing ways. When I’m not writing, you’ll find me hiking, jogging, exploring wild places with my three young children and husband, leading small groups, and mentoring younger women. A certified special education teacher, I am on leave from the classroom for a season of chasing frogs and playing in creeks with my little ones. Most of all, the compassionate love of Jesus has forever ravished my heart, and I'm emphatic about making his love known to the world.