The Wholehearted Blog

Every relationship has a combination of “head over heels” days and “please don’t speak to me until tomorrow” days. Even in the mere six months that I have been married,...

Discipline brings us rest and peace. When we train ourselves for godliness as 1 Timothy promises, we will experience benefits in this life and in the next. If we’ve been...

One of the main reasons we struggle with having a quiet time is that it is often unenjoyable. Prayer can feel monotonous, Scripture can seem dull, and worship can feel...

Several years ago, I began to recognize I needed to grow in the disciple of prayer. Even though I had been a Christian for most of my life, I felt...

It’s hard to have a quiet time in the morning—before school, before exercising, before work, before the kids, before the alarm, before my husband gets up…It’s hard to have a...

I used to treat time with Jesus as just another desire. I would wait for my desires to spiral me toward spending time with Jesus. I would neglect to seek...

Creating a daily quiet time with Jesus has meant a lot of dying to self for me. My sinful nature is very selfish and pleasure-seeking. I want what I want when I...

I’ve had daily time with Jesus as a daughter and now as a mother; in loneliness and while surrounded by children. In both grief and joy, failure and success, I’ve...

Recently, I caught myself filling in the sections of my Quiet Time Companion without really paying attention to what I was doing. I closed the journal—done. I hadn’t waited for...