by Rachael | Aug 18, 2023 | Home
Last weekend, my friends loaded my belongings into a couple of pickup trucks, a trailer, and backseats, and moved them roughly 500 feet away. This move marked my third consecutive year of packing and unpacking, the fourth in the past five years. I recently...
by Rachael | Jul 6, 2023 | Limits
Ed Welch’s book, Side by Side, is a little book with a big message: you are both needy and needed. Welch is speaking of friendships within the community of the church and he encourages all believers to embrace both these realities.1 Needy and needed—both are part of...
by Rachael | Jun 8, 2023 | Limits
God is God and I am not. Could I say anything more elementary than that? It’s a simple statement, yet it contains two profound truths that I need to remember every day. God is God. I am not. There are moments when my God-given limits are in the rear-view mirror. I’ve...
by Rachael | May 25, 2023 | Limits
March 2020 brought all of us face-to-face with limits. It doesn’t matter who you are; ask anyone to reflect on that spring and you’ll hear limits. Our activity was limited. Our understanding was limited as talking heads gave ever-changing reports. Our pantries,...
by Rachael | May 19, 2023 | Limits
There are plenty of things in life that claim to be unlimited. All-inclusive resorts, unlimited data plans, bottomless fries at Red Robin. Yet all the limitless options and plans that are a marketer’s delight will eventually reach an end. The buffet or bar at...
by Rachael | May 12, 2023 | Limits
I’ve become a broken record. The needle in every conversation is firmly stuck in the groove of limits. The more that I think about limits, the more I see them. I’m not sure if that thought is encouraging or discouraging—the answer varies daily. My limits,...
by Rachael | May 3, 2023 | Limits
I am limited. I’ve always known that instinctively, but recently a new reality has begun to grip me: I am limited . . . by design. I wake every morning to these limits: I have only twenty-four hours in my day. My body will require sleep again tonight. I don’t know...