Table of Contents
Introduction 13
1 Even Jesus Was Overwhelmed 15
2 You Don't Have to Crush It 18
3 You Are Not Alone 21
4 Not Yours! 24
5 The God Who Cares 27
6 You Have Ali That You Need 30
7 Living Calm 33
8 A Sermonette for Your Soul 35
9 You Are the One Jesus Loves 38
10 The Uttered and the Unspoken 40
11 Be Watchful 42
12 I Am Here for You 44
13 How Not to Get Lost 46
14 A Peace That's Out of This World 48
15 Give Me the Right Feet 51
16 When Your Mouth Needs a Recall Button 54
17 When Words Are Hard to Find 56
18 Successful or Suffering? 59
19 Rest for the Restless 61
20 When Your Prison Becomes Your Platform 63
21 I Can't (and Don't Have to) Do It All 66
22 Following from Close Behind 69
23 Repairing Broken Relationships 72
24 How to Combat a Cowardly Heart 74
25 Heavy Crosses 77
26 Reach for the Living Water 79
27 Loving Others Freely 82
28 Is There Enough? 84
29 Seeing Clearly 86
30 Give Him Your Best 88
31 When God Feels Distant 90
32 Just Keep Moving 92
33 We Need Less 95
34 On Stashing and Storing 97
35 Be Careful 100
36 Filling Up with Praise 102
37 Beyond Remorse 105
38 When You Need to Cast Your Cares 107
39 The Secret Life 110
40 Drop the Security Blanket 112
41 The Downward Life 115
42 And All That Jazz 117
43 Loving Others in Your Pain 119
44 If This, Then That 122
45 Surrendering Expectations 125
46 Pursuing Diverse Relationships 127
47 Making Room for God 129
48 Flawed and Yet Useful 131
49 The Apple of God's Eye 133
50 Calm Down and Be Quiet 135
51 Living a Life of Prayer 138
52 How to Want What You Have 140
53 Making Time for What Matters Most 142
54 Never Out of Sight 144
55 Big Small Things 147
56 Gazing Ahead, Not Glancing Behind 149
57 Envy Rots the Bones 152
58 Great Expectations 154
59 Stressed and Looking for Rest 157
60 Thank You for Being a Friend 159
61 Waiting 162
62 Unexpected, but Perfect, Pairings 164
63 When Saying No Is Our Best Answer 167
64 Why Do a Good Deed? 169
65 Worry's Prediction 172
166 Putting Life in Portrait Mode 174
67 The Blindness of Comparison 177
68 Cultivated, Not Just Imitated 179
69 What Time Is It? 182
70 Be on the Lookout 184
71 Seek First 186
72 Breaking Free from Heartache and Hurt 188
73 No Regrets 191
74 A Scriptural 9-1-1 193
75 Getting Alone 196
76 Where Not to Place Your Trust 198
77 The Reward of Prayer 201
78 The Ultimate Unfriending 203
79 It's Okay to Rest 205
80 Lose the Fret; Keep the Faith 207
81 When People Let You Down 210
82 Praise Him Anyhow 212
83 Like a Child 215
84 What We Do with Jesus 217
85 Not Enough Time 220
86 Believing Is Seeing 222
87 Painful Partings 225
88 On Wailing and Worship 227
89 Giving God Your Past 230
90 Learning to Live in a World without Why 232
Acknowledgments 235
Notes 237
