Have you ever felt like you couldn’t control your anger? Like the pain runs so deep you can’t quite trace where it started? Certain things trigger you, and before you know it, it feels like they’ve gotten the best of you. Simeon’s story feels familiar in that way. Simeon was born into pain. His mother, Leah, named him from a place of deep hurt. She wasn’t trying to shape him into a man marked by anger and violence but words spoken from wounded places can still echo loudly. So

The last two days I have not been feeling quite myself. Yesterday, I completely missed and skipped my own Bible study and my time with the Lord because I felt defeated, depleted, and exhausted. But as I woke this morning, I told myself that I would spend time with the Lord intentionally, no matter how “not myself” I felt. In my time with the Lord, I decided to open up a book by Lana Vawser, and in that moment, the Lord met me. There’s a part of her book that says, “Look again

Can you discern the times? This was a question I found myself pondering this morning as I read Jesus’ words in the book of Matthew. Over the last couple of days, I’ve found myself both stuck and completely unraveled by the teachings of Christ, yet each day He gives another slice of wisdom to His followers truths that still speak today. Today’s wisdom comes from Matthew 24, where Jesus spoke to His disciples about the end times and what signs would mark His second coming. The