The Eyes of My Heart

Expecting more.

Don’t be content with little! Life can keep us so busy and it sometimes seems absolutely normal to just exist. We go to work, come home, and go to sleep just to wake up and do it all over again. Our days can pile up one after another without us rising above the daily grind…

Be the blessing.

Finding rain in the desert. In the past few years, I’ve had repetitive experiences in the workplace that produced much confusion and disappointment inside my heart and mind. God has given me the undeserved grace of living out the beauty of a poured-out life. I knew the unspeakable fulfillment of giving of myself out of…

A different kind of heart.

What made David pleasing to God? Lately, I’ve been experiencing many circumstances that seriously try my faith. During times like these I usually turn to the Psalms, but to my discouragement, this time around my heart felt so distant from the joyful cries of David as he acknowledges God as his strength or his deliverance….

Whatever is pure…

The beauty of right thinking. It’s important what we think about. If we’re not careful, our minds have the ability to wander astray. Sometimes we find ourselves in bondage to a specific mindset because of the very lack of discipline in our minds. I used to read the passage from Philippians 4:8 (NIV), Finally, brothers…

Plain yet powerful.

A Biblical recipe for prayer. Prayer can seem so complicated. There are times in life when we wish we would receive even the slightest sign that our prayers are heard. We wish we had more faith or more perseverance. Even if we do pray, we feel disconnected and our prayers seem to run in circles….

Silencing the voice of our heart.

Are you leaning on God for insight? I tend to forget to look back. I forget how far I’ve come so often. It’s as if I’m entitled to the life I live or to the blessings that so abundantly surround me. My natural inclination is to stare blankly at life in a frail attempt to…