by Laura Sandretti | Mar 5, 2025 | Faith in the Storm
“Lent is a time of returning to God. It is a time to confess how we keep looking for joy, peace, and satisfaction in the many people and things surrounding us, without really finding what we desire.” – Henri NouwenRecently when our pastor talked about giving up...
by Laura Sandretti | Oct 24, 2024 | Faith in the Storm
What if your broken marriage, struggling kids, or that job you hate, never gets better? Would Jesus be more than a cliché of “enough”? Could you have joy? I’ve been asking myself this a lot lately. I love that song, “You’re never going to let me down.” I abstractly...
by Laura Sandretti | Apr 19, 2024 | Faith in the Storm
When my husband and I agreed he should take a new job two and a half hours away but keep our home in Milwaukee, too, I kept hearing a repeated Spirit-inspired-whisper: “Do today.” When I caught myself worrying about how I’d manage two houses long term, I’d get...
by Laura Sandretti | Sep 14, 2023 | Faith in the Storm
The past year has been rough. In that time I’ve cried out to God with ugly sobs. Sometimes I was enraged that specific and (what I thought were) God honoring requests – went completely sideways. Some days I asked if He was punishing or teaching me. Other times I...
by Laura Sandretti | May 12, 2023 | Faith in the Storm
I barely slept last night. My daughter was flying overnight from O’Hare to Amsterdam and from there to Tanzania where she’ll be teaching math to high school students. The professor who’s leading the group has taken twelve trips there before so rationally...
by Laura Sandretti | Apr 24, 2023 | Faith in the Storm
A college-aged friend once asked me how it helped to know who God says you are if you feel rejected by humans. She struggled to understand what difference it made if Jesus loved and accepted her if her relationships often failed. When she asked me this I wasn’t in any...
