I thought it would look different – This suffering. I thought I’d be ready. I thought I’d embrace it piously. But no – It came unexpectedly, Cutting into my world With talons of fear and confusion. This suffering Didn’t bring a jail cell Or a physical attack Or a sudden hurricane. But… Continue reading When You Thought Suffering Would Look Different
It seems unreal. It seems like a scene from a movie. Like something we would watch and think, “Wow, that’s crazy! I’m glad that would never happen to me.” And yet – it has happened to me. It is happening to me right now. For the first time in my life, I went to the… Continue reading When the World Seems to Have Stopped
If you’ve been tracking with me this year, you know of my focus for a deeper, more undistracted year. I wrote about my goals for January, which were sort of a template for following months – then I followed up with them at the beginning of February in this post – and now it’s time… Continue reading Social Media-Free Mornings
One month of the year has passed us already. We’re already on the eighth day of the second month of 2020. And to be quite honest, January felt like an eternity and a blur all at the same time. The day after I posted about A Deeper, More Undistracted Year, my grandmother passed away. Four… Continue reading The Magic of Creating Margins
Zechariah 4:6, 10 – “Then He said to me, ‘This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the LORD of hosts.’ … For whoever has despised the day of small things shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of… Continue reading Don’t Despise the Day of Small Things
Last year, 2019, I wanted my focus to be on faithfulness. I wanted to especially grow in my faithfulness to the callings that I’ve been given in this season – specifically my writing, my walk with God, and my hospitality/relationships. Unfortunately, there were a few things that got in the way of that pursuit –… Continue reading 2020 – A Deeper, More Undistracted Year
You thought perhaps this season of your life would be different. A little fuller. A little more rewarding. A little more bountiful. And instead, you find yourself facing an unexpected season of barrenness. A season where you feel like not much fruit is growing or being cultivated. Maybe you’re a young mother constantly pouring into… Continue reading Seasons of Barrenness
Do you crave a love like what all the romantic songs and sweet quotes offer? “A love so deep the ocean would be jealous?” The kind that promises to always be faithful and never leave us? A kind that vows to know us intimately and cherish us always? Isn’t this kind of love what makes… Continue reading Do You Crave a Love Like That?
When I pulled up to the school on that late summer day, there were two familiar faces waiting in front of it. Students I had had two years prior who were now waiting for the bus that would take them to their seventh-grade orientation. I stopped to chat with them, and before I could stop… Continue reading Getting Ready to Share in Their Stories Again
This past winter, I started thinking about next steps in getting my book published and about how writers need to have social media platforms upon which to be followed. Starting ones for myself sounded less than appealing on a number of levels. For one, I update social media platforms for the national leadership group that… Continue reading I Have Nothing Good to Say
