Join the quest and Accept The Love Challenge!
Days later and I am still in recovery mode from our little excursion in south Texas… The heat way down south in San Antone was excruciating. We’re still scratching our heads, wondering if we had a good time!? 😂 Similar, the heat on the OK/TX border this summer has truly been unbearable. More than once…
![What is My Calling [or Purpose] in This Life?](https://rachelwrains.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/80FC11C8-7F12-41FF-A76A-F347AF77257F.png)
Calling was central in my life as a young adult. I instinctively understood what “was” and “wasn’t” my calling. As strange as it may sound, I distinctly felt “called” to be a Christian in a secular industry. Turns out, the life God was calling me into, eventually, led me to Nashville. A life, no doubt,…
![How to Find Rest… [and Peace]](https://rachelwrains.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/FBBD644C-435C-4AB3-BEF4-76A9BACD8794.jpeg)
When living in Nashville, I often noticed my best work as a voice coach immediately followed a vacation. Time away from the pressures of life brought clarity and refueled my creative self. I would find my self slaying session after session. But after six years of walking in back-to-back life crises’ [which I don’t recommend😂],…
![How to Be Kind To Others… [a back-to-school message]](https://rachelwrains.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/F3256CB8-A3A2-4FBF-BCD1-0FE3F3C8A7C3.png)
As kids head back to school, it’s a great time to remind them to spread God’s love through loving words and kind deeds. Kindness is the “new cool.”* I love how an educator [and member of the #tlccommunity] expresses the reminder–so simply, yet so profoundly. “You don’t have to be fake, just [be] kind.” KINDNESS…
![How to Love [Others] When We Disagree…](https://rachelwrains.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/F618BE7F-2E85-49F8-A7FA-3780E1F687F4-1.png)
No matter where you fall on the recent Supreme Court decision, one thing is certain. All of us share a singular commonality—our humanity. So often as believers, we identify ourselves as “Jesus overturning the tables” in the courtyard of the temple. But rarely do we ever identify ourselves as “Jesus on the Cross” who prayed…
![God’s [Amazing] Grace…](https://rachelwrains.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/82344DE5-AFBE-49FE-9753-6EDB5FBDF097.png)
At the heart of accepting The Love Challenge is a “holy yearning” for God’s LOVE to illuminate your life. When we meet the challenge to love a broken world with God’s amazing grace and unfathomable love, we are transformed to Christ-likeness. LOVE is the light of the world and extraordinary grace the distinguishing mark of…
![“LOVE Makes You Do Crazy Things…” [Really!?]](https://rachelwrains.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/41E420DD-46A5-4490-950A-69EC10C017ED.png)
Love can’t make us to do crazy things as suggested by Will Smith last night during his acceptance speech at the Academy Awards. Crazy good things, maybe!? But God is LOVE and love endures all things. Perhaps the wisest words of the night [regarding the incident] came from Denzel Washington. “In your highest moments, be…
![How to Find Peace… [when peace seems evasive]](https://rachelwrains.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/27546403-0FF9-41ED-9940-E9338379901F.png)
PEACE in this world is evasive… If we didn’t know it before, we certainly know it now. No matter how advanced our world may grow, lasting peace continues to elude us. The only peace to be found on earth is in the dwelling place of the God most high. “Then my people will dwell in…
![I Am From poem… [Finding Hope and Healing]](https://rachelwrains.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/0191D615-E662-4543-AB5D-8533679CD733.jpeg)
I am from Gospel sounds. From Sunday dinners made from scratch. I am from parents who tried as best they could, but also lost their way. I am from magnolias tall whose beckoning branches encouraged me skywards—always. I am from hand-me-down dresses and scrapbooks full of girlhood achievements. From Jack and from Nellie. From as…