Chances are at least once in your life you’ve come head-to-head with a difficult experience that has overwhelmed your heart with grief. For some people, forever grief is engrained in their lives and part of their overall identity.

If you’ve sought out books to serve you, you’ve probably been very disappointed! Grief books are usually grey in color and the cover is saturated with perceived sadness. Grief is awkward and people on both ends do not always know how to process it.

We all want our homes to feel like a safe haven, am I right? Home is meant to be a place to belong; place to gather and connect. A place of beauty. A place to restore your soul.

Creating a restored home—the kind that you and your loved ones want to return to again and again—is as much about making everyone who enters feel cared for and comfortable as it is about creating a beautiful space.

Following Jesus doesn’t guarantee sunny skies and smooth sailing. In fact, the waters of life are often tumultuous, crashing over us. Sometimes we can feel that we’re drowning in a sea of confusion, division, frustration, complacency, or disillusionment. We need more than a shallow faith to survive these deep waters.

Leaving an extra tip for the waitress, bringing cookies for the office, volunteering at a local church, donating clothes to a shelter, writing a letter to a relative, buying coffee for a friend, promoting a friend's blog...