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Let It Go

July 25, 2022 Ondi

I never thought that dropping off my second daughter at her first day of kindergarten would be so uneventful. She has been the attached one,

How Do We prepare for the Unexpected?: Trust Him

September 3, 2021 Ondi

Can you imagine if God told us all of the plans He had for our lives? If God had let us know the pandemic was coming, the devastating hurricanes, the strife in Afghanistan, the turmoil in our personal lives: would we have trusted that He could make good of all that? Do we even trust that now? And how do we deal with the things we’ve prepared for for years, being pulled out from under us? Was this God’s plan? How can he make this good?

Stop Looking Around: Trusting Jesus in the Storm

July 20, 2020 Ondi

I was like Peter as he walked out onto the water. Those first few laps I stared at what I knew to be true. I clung to the idea that I could do this. And then, like Peter, I looked around. I saw the failure, I saw what could happen, I saw what could go wrong, what was going wrong, and I sunk. I sunk deeper and deeper until I finished with a disappointing time and place, and a litany of excuses.