Faith Blooms

09/29/2026

I was doing my Joshua study this morning and loved this reminder from Jen Wilkin:

“We have to be so careful that we are not so eager to see the miraculous moment that we forget God’s faithfulness in steady, daily provision in mundane ways.”

Of course we remember the big things - the answered prayers and the moments when God shows up in ways we can’t miss.

But most of life is lived in the ordinary.

A pile of laundry because we have clothes to wear.
Food in the refrigerator.
A car to get us where we need to go.
Hot water for a shower.
A bed to crawl into at the end of the day.
Another ordinary day with the people we love.

These things may not feel miraculous. But they are still evidence of God’s steady, daily provision.

When we write these things down, we start to see just how faithful God has been all along.

Not just in the miracles. In the mundane, too.

What’s one ordinary blessing you don’t want to forget today?

09/24/2026

Me: “God, I trust Your timing. I know Your plans are better than mine. I’ll wait patiently.” 🙌🏻

Also me when Amazon says my package is delayed: 😡🔥😂

Waiting is hard.

But I’m learning that so much of our growth happens in the waiting.

It’s where we learn patience.
Where we learn to surrender control.
Where we learn to trust God even when we can’t see what He’s doing yet.

I know I spend so much time wanting to get to the next thing - the answered prayer, the open door, the thing we’ve been hoping for.

But maybe God isn’t just working on what we’re waiting for.
Maybe He’s also working on us while we wait.
And maybe patience isn’t just waiting without complaining.
Maybe it’s learning to trust that God is still good while we wait.

Anyone else really good at trusting God’s timing… as long as He’s on your schedule? 🙋🏼‍♀️

09/18/2026

Driving to meet John for lunch yesterday, I rounded a corner and suddenly there they were.

Hay bales. So many of them. Probably 50 scattered across a field in the middle of the Dallas metroplex. 😆🤯

And I smiled.

I have no idea why, but I have ALWAYS loved hay bales. I loved seeing them as a kid, then loved seeing them when John would take me to South Dakota to visit, and of course when we lived in South Dakota we saw them all the time.
I would always make John pull off to the side of the road so I could take pictures! Which is a lot easier to do on back roads in South Dakota but I was able to snap this picture today from my car as I was driving by. 🤫

And today I started thinking about why I love these little circles so much.

Maybe it’s because there’s something really beautiful about them. Something grew, was harvested, and now it’s going to be used to feed and provide for something else.

What grew in one season becomes provision for the next.

I don’t know. Maybe I’m reading way too much into a bunch of hay bales. 😂

But it felt like a little gift from God.

Nothing big. Nothing life-changing. Just something He knew would make me smile. And I added it to our blessing box today.

Sometimes I think we’re looking so hard for God to show up in the big things that we miss all the tiny ways He reminds us, I know you. I know what you love.

Today, for me, it was a field full of hay bales in the middle of the city. 🤍

Swipe to see some of my fav hay bale pics from over the years.

What’s one way God has made you smile lately?

09/18/2026

God is present in our everyday life! You have nothing to fear because He is always with you and will take care of you!🤍

09/16/2026

I was driving home and got stuck in traffic and God used something completely ordinary to get my attention.

I was sitting in a right-turn lane, waiting to turn into a parking lot. There was an accident in front of me so traffic was very backed up, and from where I was sitting, it probably looked like I just wasn’t going.

A few cars behind me, someone apparently decided they’d waited long enough.

So they pulled out of line, drove up onto the sidewalk and grass, passed everyone, and came all the way up beside me.

Except there was a problem.

There was a truck pulling a long trailer in the parking lot, completely blocking the entrance.

They couldn’t turn either.

So now there we both sat. Me in the turn lane. Them beside me…on the grass. 😆

And I immediately thought:

How often do I do this with God?

I’m waiting. Nothing seems to be moving. I can’t understand why the way forward isn’t opening up.

And instead of trusting that maybe God can see something I can’t, I start looking for a way around.

I try to fix it.
Force it.
Speed it up.
Make my own way forward.

Because from where I’m sitting, it just looks like God isn’t moving.

But He can see the road ahead.

He sees the obstacle I don’t even know is there.

Maybe sometimes what feels like God making us wait isn’t Him withholding something from us at all.

Maybe He’s protecting us. Preparing something. Redirecting us. Or simply asking us to trust Him when we can only see what’s right in front of us, but He can see the whole picture.

Today I needed that reminder:

I don’t have to drive through the grass trying to get ahead of God.

I can trust the One who already knows what’s ahead.

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight.”
Proverbs 3:5–6

Because God’s faithfulness is worth remembering!
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09/11/2026

When we surrender everything to Him, He teaches us so much!! Thank you Jessica Fischer for being the light you are!! 🤍🌱🕊️

09/05/2026

I firmly believe that so much of how we experience our circumstances is shaped by our mindset.

When we look for what’s wrong, somehow we always find more of it.
But when we intentionally look for the good? We start seeing it everywhere.

The little kindnesses.
The answered prayers.
The little ways He provides.
The fingerprints of God we might have completely missed.

And I think the more we notice, the more we notice.

Not because everything suddenly becomes good or easy - but because we’re training our hearts to recognize that even here God is at work.

What can you notice God doing today?

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09/03/2026

Community is everything!!👏🏼🤍

Who you surround yourself with matters! To have a good friend, you have to be a good friend!! We know that as iron sharpens iron, good friends encourage one another to be better every day! We aren’t meant to do life alone!🤍

09/01/2026

Sometimes we’re so focused on the thing we’re waiting for that we miss what God is doing right in front of us.

We’re waiting for the answered prayer.
The open door.
The relationship.
The breakthrough.
The “finally.”

But what if God is already moving?

Maybe it’s in the peace you didn’t have before.
Maybe it’s in the person He placed in your life.
Maybe it’s in the strength you’ve gained through the waiting.
Maybe it’s in the way He’s quietly changing your heart.

Slow down today. 🌿
Look a little closer.
Pay attention to the small things.

God is faithful in the waiting, faithful in the becoming, and faithful in the fulfillment.

He is never late. He is always faithful.

Save this for the days when you need the reminder—and share it with someone who’s waiting on God right now. 🤍

08/28/2026

God always has our best in mind!!🤍🌱 Thank you Jackson for sharing your story!!