When things set to spinning and all you want to do is jump
I learned to drive in Michigan—which means I learned how to drive in the snow. I also learned what it means to lose control of the car on...
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When Being Stuck Doesn’t Seem So Temporary
Everybody I know feels stuck. Life seems to be on hold. We can’t move forward. And we can’t go back. We tarry here in the in-between....
What if we dropped the keys?
I’ve been doing a lot more walking these days. I think that’s the case for many of us. It’s one of the few places we can go. I headed out...
Surrounded in Isolation
In these days of cancellations and unfamiliar isolation, we find it necessary to look for ways to battle the real enemies of...
How What is to Come is a Blessing Now
Job, a suffering servant of God, in the depths of anguish of flesh, mind and spirit, proclaimed: “And after my skin has been destroyed,...
An Untossable Faith
I hadn’t been to the beach in years. Until, at long last, we took our first college tour. We were so close—we just had to make the detour...
Underestimating God
Realization pierced the thick fog—permitting light to stream and flood. This realization came about by asking myself one simple question,...
Car parts and faith and what one has to do with the other
Headlights—they come in varying degrees of brightness and hues these days. Whether they’re coming at you dead-on or glaring from the...
Gift of Faith—The Backstory
There was a time nothing seemed true, all was shifting shadows. I got caught up in the chaotic world, spinning nonsensically out of...
A God You Can Trust—Without Question
My phone was clipped to my hip pocket and my earbuds were streaming. I was listening to a favorite podcast during my morning prep...
The Undeniable Cost of Faithfulness—A Lesson from the Prophet Jeremiah
It pricks your heart when you realize the depth of suffering the Lord’s servants endured. And yet, they remained faithful to delivering...
Questions for Life
There are other weighty questions we should ask ourselves at certain, pivotal junctures in life.
Living life to the pulse of faith
This ever-changing life is lived in cycles: of want and plenty, ease and trial, celebration and mourning. With its ups and downs, peaks...
A shattering undone
They shattered to bits. And my heart sank. After the shock wore off, I stooped down to pick up the pieces scattered far and wide. I tried...
When your day gets altered
Life has a way of altering a day. BUT . . . As God covered the deep Creation waters, so too He covers the space you occupy. He is the God...
Try not to catch what others are throwing at you
“Piracy is not a victimless crime,” he joshed. “Yeah, I recently read that somewhere,” I lobbed back. This light-hearted banter was...
A Psalmistic Life
Life lessons—they’re those things learned from experience. The psalmists shared from their experience many valuable lessons for doing...
It’s all about a steady pace
I passed her in the hall during her morning walk. She was moving a bit slower than usual, though, so I paused to check on her. “I’m...
Three Dark Days
Thinking back over history, I paused to reflect over each dark period— the worst the human race had to offer; times when evil reigned and...
When all the world is pulling you down
On worn and trusty skates, they headed out into the wintry wonderland in search of a grand, childhood adventure. The lake was their...
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