When we limit ourselves to believing for the known — or what we have already proven to be true — we limit our results. The mere act of embracing what we can’t see as truth requires a degree of faith.

So, is experience really the best teacher? It depends on what you want to learn. Is the past really the best predictor of the future? It is if you want to be able to predict the future. Expanding into the unknown means not being able to predict the future; but it also means ensuring that your future does not equal your past.

I embraced a belief as a little girl that “faith without works is dead.” And it has seemed to me a valid belief. I have spent my life wanting to do all that I knew to do, believing that then I could trust God to do his part. For the last several years I have tried to balance doing my part with letting go. On the surface, it seemed straight forward enough: Do my part, and then let go and trust God to do his part. Yet I struggled to know where my part ended and the letting go began.… More

May we whisper love. May we scream love. May we listen love.… More