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Sister, if you’ve just lost your husband, I am so very, very sorry.  It’s a life you never chose, a path you don’t want to walk, a club you never wanted to join.  Yet, this life was chosen for you.  The days, weeks, and months following the death of your husband are so hard.  I’m…

I got together and visited with a dear friend the other day.  We may be in very different places regarding our life circumstances, but we both struggle, and we both are pressing in to the Lord, trusting him with our outcomes.  She said something very simple yet very profound: “This isn’t forever.”  Sweet friend, it…

Here is a link to my message at a ladies conference.  My notes are below the link. Women’s Conference message —Introduce myself I grew up in Arlington. My dad’s from Pakistan, hence my name.  I trusted in Christ for salvation at the age of 12 but didn’t really understand what it meant to live my…

“But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that Day what has been entrusted to me.”  1 Timothy 1:12 How do I do this new life?  How do I keep going when my soul misses the one it loves?  How…

“Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it… Yet.”  Anne Don’t laugh; hear me out for a minute.  There is much we can learn from fictional characters.  I think we see things more clearly in a story, and in the pages of a book we can better understand ourselves.  After all, Christ himself…

I read a beautiful essay today by Joy Clarkson who is wise beyond her years.  I love seeing the insight she has into life and the world at large.  She was writing about joy, hope, and what it means to be human.  It was certainly a thought-provoking piece. Sometimes we rue the very things that…

The struggle is real.  Being a mom is hard.  We all have those moments where we are less than proud of our parenting skills.  Have you ever punished one of your children for something only to later discover that it was one his siblings?  Yep, me too.  Have you ever washed your kid’s mouth out…

I’m sorry, but there will be days that are hard.  There will be days where you just want to crawl into bed and ignore your responsibilities for the day.  There will be days when your failures run rampant and the mountain in your path insurmountable.  There will be days when you cry out to God,…

There will be things in coming days, months, and years that prick your heart with a memory.  There will be other things that pierce you like a knife and bring you to your knees with the depth of your loss.  My best friend and I decided to call these things thorns.  It might be hearing…

I saw this video on Facebook yesterday and thought it was so good and so true.  It’s a hard message, but one that is biblical.  John Piper is a brilliant author, pastor, and theologian.  If you read his books, his insights into Scripture are beautiful and profound.  If you listen to him preach, he has…