by Jennifer | Aug 31, 2016 | purpose
As of 7:30 this morning, summer at the Kostick home officially came to an end. The kids entered their little, yellow school bus carrying new backpacks heavy with classroom supplies. This is true evidence of fall, and it’s already nagging me to burn candles, and...
by Jennifer | Oct 29, 2015 | Christian, encouragement, Hope, Inspirational, miscarriage, Stillbirth
I have to be honest and tell you that the word still used to upset me. Just hearing it would actually shake me down deep in the core of my being. I had a stillborn daughter. I suffered six and a half hours through a painful birth hoping and praying to hear a miracle...
by Jennifer | Oct 27, 2015 | Christian, encouragement, Hope, Inspirational
With only five days left in this series, I think it’s important to spend some time considering not what stillness is according to formal definition, or even what we’ve searched thus far, but to look deeply inside our own hearts and search for ourselves...
by Jennifer | Oct 24, 2015 | Christian, encouragement, Hope, Inspirational
He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. -Psalm 23:2 When I was a kid I used to love to water ski. Unlike snow skiing, I was actually pretty good at it. I remember the first time I ever tried. My dad helped me get situated in the...
by Jennifer | Oct 23, 2015 | Christian, encouragement, Hope, Inspirational
As people, and especially as children of God, we tend to have a misconception that we should be able to hold everything together. We think the only way to be still is to have each issue in life under control, and there is pressure in thinking that other people need to...