A Holy Pursuit

Last Spring I found myself in a stage of life in which I evoked the wisdom of my parents, a professor at Moody, and my aunt. I just needed some individuals older and wiser to speak into my life and pray with me. Although I just wanted someone to give me a straight answer as to what to do, I knew that wasn’t going to happen. So instead, I listened to their advice, Biblical counsel, and just processed everything the best I knew how. However, while I was talking with my aunt one evening she gave me the best advice I have ever heard. I was pouring out my heart to her listening ears and after giving some of her initial thoughts she wisely said, “Sara, you need to ask God what He is trying to teach you through this”. I thought to myself, ‘Well yeah, I am doing that’; but as I thought more about it I realized I had neglected to do so. I was so caught up in my own thoughts, feelings, and emotions that I had completely forgotten to just sit at Jesus’ feet and ask what He wanted to teach m...

This past weekend I was able to travel to Ohio with my fiancé to celebrate the first birthday of his niece. These kinds of celebrations are always exciting and joyful, but this one was especially so. Lily shouldn’t really be alive, according to many doctors and specialists. She was born last year on October first at only 25 weeks developed. She was barely a pound when she was born and comparable to the size of a Barbie doll. While Lily should have been snuggled safely in her mother’s womb to continue growing and developing normally, she was instead placed in an incubator with all kinds of wires and cords hooked up to her tiny body with machines monitoring her every breath and movement. It was incredible seeing Lily in such a helpless, fragile state, hanging on to life. However, there were many times then, and still now, that I thought of the verses in Psalms that state: “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you for I am fearfully a...