by Denise Pass | Dec 23, 2024
Getting up from my pew, a woman grabbed my arm and handed me a book on the sly, “The Confident Woman.” It was around the year 2000 and I did not realize how much I needed that book. Nor did I realize the devastating storm that was about to wreck my world...
by Denise Pass | Nov 27, 2024
Holidays… I think you already know where I am going with this. But just in case… Holidays can be a big invitation for shame…if we let them be! We can feel the need to perform but not receive the acceptance we long for. This can be everything from the...
by Denise Pass | Nov 18, 2024
Giving up is sometimes thought of as shameful. The walk of shame is usually a part of this surrender. But what if surrender is our strongest position? There is no shame in surrender when we surrender to the LORD. Surrender means we rely on God’s strength, not...
by Denise Pass | Nov 10, 2024
Waiting can induce a lot of shame. Waiting to lose weight. Or waiting for a job we really need. Even waiting for health problems or relationship problems to resolve. And the hope that we might bear a child…the list can go on and on. Waiting is hard to do....
by Denise Pass | Nov 10, 2024
Waiting is hard to do. There, I said it. Thriving in the waiting game of life seems kind of fake. And I confess that it is easy to become jaded while we wait, thinking that what we are waiting for might never happen. Or perhaps we begin to doubt that the wait will be...
