by Joanna Kimbrel
Have you had a bad day recently? One of those days when everything seems to go wrong? You know the ones. Maybe it started with sleeping through your alarm, and it just went downhill from there. Spilled coffee, unexpected bills, toddler meltdowns, bumper to bumper traffic, burned dinner, and a hundred other things leave you exhausted and wishing you could sleep the day away and pretend it never happened.…
By Joanna Kimbrel
Director of Theology
In the beginning, God was with us.
He walked with us in the garden.
He dwelt among us.
The uninhibited, unrestrained, unimaginable presence of God with us,
And it was very good.
The holy Creator delighted in His good creation—
The man and woman called to bear his glorious image.…
By Joanna Kimbrel
Staff Writer for The Daily Grace Co.
You scroll through your Instagram feed and see a bright white kitchen, sparkling in the ethereal glow of natural light pouring through the huge window over the farmhouse sink. One child sits on the floor playing with wooden toy cars, while the other sits in her perfectly clean high chair happily munching on raw veggies. …
By Joanna Kimbrel
Staff Writer for The Daily Grace Co.
“The Lord is righteous in all His ways.” These words from Psalm 145:17 have often been a comfort to me. A reassuring reminder in the midst of brokenness. I look around and see circumstances that are out of my control, injustice that appears unrighted, and events whose purposes I cannot understand.…
By Joanna Kimbrel
Staff Writer for The Daily Grace Co.
In the beginning, God was with us.
He walked with us in the garden.
He dwelt among us.
The uninhibited, unrestrained, unimaginable presence of God with us,
And it was very good.
The holy Creator delighted in His good creation—
The man and woman called to bear his glorious image.…
By Joanna Kimbrel
Staff writer for The Daily Grace Co.
On Monday, April 15th, 2019, flames engulfed the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris France. A team of more than 400 firefighters worked in the night to extinguish the flames, but the fire brought the cathedrals iconic spire crumbling to the ground and left the legendary 13th century masterpiece with devastating damage.…