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A New Season of Growth: An Excerpt from Even the Ashes Bloom
A reflective excerpt from Even the Ashes Bloom explores healing, spiritual growth, and surrender—inviting God to renew what’s beneath the surface.
Hope in the Hard Seasons
Entering a new year with unanswered prayers or unfinished healing? This gentle prayer offers hope, trust, and peace for seasons of waiting and uncertainty.
Trusting God with the Unfinished
Entering a new year with unanswered prayers or unfinished healing? This gentle prayer offers hope, trust, and peace for seasons of waiting and uncertainty.
What's the Word?
Choosing a word of the year? This faith-based reflection points to Jesus—the Word—and invites you to begin the year rooted in God’s presence.
Merry Christmas!
This Christmas, pause and reflect on the birth of Jesus. A faith-filled invitation to rest, renew your spirit, and embrace hope for the year ahead.
What Mary's Story Teaches Me About Motherhood & Faith
What Mary’s story teaches us about motherhood, faith, surrender, and trust in God—finding sacred purpose in ordinary moments and seasons of uncertainty.
A Season for Both Grief & Hope
A heartfelt reflection on navigating grief during the holidays. This December devotion offers comfort, hope, and faith for those carrying silent sorrow. Discover how grief and Christmas joy can coexist.
Resources for Experiencing Peace, Presence, & Purpose This Holiday Season
Reclaiming Hope Through Faith
Feeling weary in your faith? Discover 5 heartfelt ways to reclaim hope when life feels heavy, plus a prayer and encouragement grounded in God’s promises.
An Exerpt from Hope in the Healing
A powerful devotional on Psalm 56:8 about God’s intimate care, healing through faith, and hope for those carrying sorrow, pain, or illness.
Held Through the Hurt: Five Years of Hope, Healing, and Holding On
A powerful faith-filled reflection on chronic pain, PTSD, and healing. Discover gentle steps, hope, and spiritual resilience in the midst of suffering.
The Case for Hope & Healing in Jesus Christ
When life feels overwhelming, there is still reason to hope. In this powerful testimony, Terry Lambertson shares how faith in Jesus brings healing, restoration, and purpose after pain.
How to Quiet a Racing Mind
Feeling restless and overwhelmed? Discover simple, faith-filled practices to calm your mind, slow your thoughts, and rest in God’s peace.
Dirt Roads & Cheesecake
In this heartfelt reflection, Jerry Woodbridge shares a mountain adventure with her mom that turns an ordinary day into a lesson on grace, faith, and the beauty of life’s detours. Discover how God refreshes our souls and leads us along the right paths—sometimes through the unexpected ones.
When Insecurity Meets Grace: Learning to See Myself as God Sees Me
Kim Mosiman shares her journey from striving to surrender—learning to see herself as God sees her and finding peace in His presence.
Reset Your Feed, Renew Your Mind: A Digital Rule of Life
The Rejected One
Feeling unseen? God sees you fully and loves you completely. Discover hope, healing, and belonging in His presence today.
What to Do While Waiting on God to Answer Prayer
When God Redirects Our Prayers
When the Answer is Not Yet
My Someplace Else
Struggling with unanswered prayers and closed doors? Discover Andrea D. Schmidt’s story of faith, waiting in the wilderness, and finding God’s greater plan.
When Fear Becomes an Invitation
Living on a Prayer (& a Budget): How God Met Me in Financial Uncertainty
The Storm's Silver Lining
In this heartfelt story of motherhood, addiction, and redemption, Debbie Oliver shares how an unexpected custody journey led to purpose, healing, and hope. For anyone praying through heartbreak, this raw and faith-filled post reveals how God's light can break through even the darkest storms.
Choose the Better Part
Struggling to balance hospitality and peace? Learn how choosing presence over perfection can transform your gatherings--and your soul.
The Confidence Pivot
Discover how true confidence begins not with self-assurance, but with time spent in God's presence. Dr. Shelley Kemp, author of The PIVOT Principle and founder of Pivot Well, LLC, shares how learning to pivot through life’s uncertainties led her to a deeper trust in God—and unshakable confidence in herself.
Silencing the Inner Critic
Building Confidence in Christ Through Daily Time with God
When Confidence Feels Out of Reach
Discover how God's grace covers even the deepest wounds. A powerful devotional on forgiveness, healing, and freedom through Christ.
Forgiving the Words that Shaped Me
A personal story of childhood wounds, forgiveness, and healing through faith. Discover how one woman let go of resentment, set healthy boundaries, and found freedom in Christ's love and truth.
Grace Upon Grace Upon Grace
Discover how God's grace covers even the deepest wounds. A powerful devotional on forgiveness, healing, and freedom through Christ.
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Letting Go When It Still Hurts: 5 Faith-Filled Steps to Release Unforgiveness and Begin Healing
The Weight We Carry: Why Forgiveness Feels Impossible
Discover the hidden burden of unforgiveness and why forgiveness feels so hard. This honest, faith-filled reflection invites you to release the weight you were never meant to carry and find freedom through God’s love.
Finding Purpose and Hope in Unexpected Detours
Discover how to trust God’s plan when life takes unexpected turns. Learn to find hope, purpose, and spiritual growth in the detours that challenge your faith..
You Don't Have to Have it all Figured Out: Walking in Purpose Before You Know the Whole Plan
Trusting the Author: How to Create a Life You Love
Feeling stuck in your story? Discover how God can redeem your past and help you create a life you love—one page, one promise at a time.
What to Do When You Don't Know Your Next Step
Feeling stuck and unsure what to do next? Discover 3 faith-based steps to trust God’s guidance and find peace when the path ahead is unclear.
The Rainbow & The Ruins: Rebuilding After Loss
Anchored & Adrift: Holding Onto Hope When Life Feels Unsettled
Faith in the Storm: Wrestling with Unanswered Prayers
Faith in the Storm: Trusting God When Life Feels Overwhelming
You Are More Than ENOUGH
Struggling with feelings of inadequacy? You are already enough in God's eyes. Learn how to silence self-doubt and embrace your worth with biblical truth and encouragement.
Breaking Free from the Lies that Steal Your Worth
Imperfection Allows Us to Depend on God
Struggling with perfectionism?
Discover how God's grace meets you in weakness and why you don’t have to be enough—just willing to trust Him.
The Beauty of Imperfection
God's Masterpiece
Embracing the woman God created you to be.
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In Even the Ashes Bloom, Sarah S. Brown invites you on a heartfelt journey through heartbreak, healing, and hope. After walking through the devastation of divorce, Sarah discovered a God who doesn't discard broken soil-He restores it. Through her story, you'll find comfort in knowing that your pain isn't wasted, your story isn't over, and God is already planting seeds of new life in the very places that feel scorched.
