When life takes an unfair turn, and we find ourselves in a place we never expected, our faith is often tested in ways we can never imagine. If you've found yourself in this very place, it helps knowing others have been there also. Join Becca today as she shares a bit of her story and how she found the courage to walk through many uncertainties and discovered a deeper faith along the way. We quietly drank our coffee on Sunday morning, stress lingering like a cloud over my thoughts as we had just dumped even more of our personal money into our business. My husband turned toward me, “I have to tell you something.” He took a long pause as I struggled to keep breathing, no clue what bomb was about to be dropped. “Two of our employees just told me this weekend that our manager is Continue Reading
Made to Brave a Wanting Heart
Wanting. It's a condition of the heart we are all too familiar with. Perhaps you've been wanting something for a very long time. Perhaps in all your waiting, you've experienced great disappointment. The kind that makes you question your faith. If so, you'll find strength and comfort in the words of our guest writer, Koki Oyuke, who shares a bit of her Made for Brave story, all the way from Nairobi, Kenya. There are times you know you should burst out crying. Times when you're fighting tears as they stain the white of your eye because it's not a good time. There are people here. It's not dark yet. There's always a reason to cover, but when tears don't release they dive in deep. And you can feel your heart getting heavy―insides too full, tinged with pain that wants to Continue Reading
When Goliath Comes to Dinner – Every Table Tells a Story
Sometimes life is just plain hard. Sometimes our Goliath is so big and scary that we can't fathom entering into the battle of hard let alone winning the battle. Yet these are the times, in the squeezing of the last bit of strength that God enters into the picture. He may not provide a way of escape. He may not clear the path and free us from the battle. And He may not slay our Goliath, which is what we so desperately long for Him to do. But if we can step back from the battle for just a bit, we will see that we are not alone. There is always another facing the same monstrous giant on different battlefields, and often God chooses to intersect the paths of weary warriors. We'll realize there is so much to be gained in the forging of our battles - TOGETHER. "As iron sharpens iron, Continue Reading
How to Stand Brave When the Battle Threatens
Sometimes life throws us a battle or a fork-in-the-road. The kind that comes unexpectedly banging and clanging into our life with such intensity, we find ourselves losing balance and perspective. The kind that threatens to throw our mind and heart into a tailspin and gives us no choice but to follow. And sometimes it's the kind that echoes muffled questions in the back of our mind. Questions that make us doubt our value and our purpose...and our future. At a time when we need to be thinking and planning for so many other important things, we find ourselves caught up in a battle we would have never chosen for ourselves. Because we don't like to be bothered by forks in the road. We don't like to be burdened with battles. And really, who does? But still, they come. Forks in Continue Reading