Timely Expectations
The GPS lady kindly informed me, “Traffic is slower than usual.” “That’s helpful,” I thought, as if we were in some shared dialogue....
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Swelling Worship
Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together! (Psalm 34:3) Worship can flow from a deep well. When it does, it cannot...
A blessing is still a blessing, even when it requires something of the recipient
Are there not times when a blessing from God requires something of the recipient? Sometimes, it may require more than we’re willing to...
Trusting God When Church Life Changes
A post for my friends @ Renew.org When church life changes because of situations out of our control, how can we use the season as an...
About Understanding
“I just don’t understand.” I uttered those words dozens of times, those closing months of 2021. But who could count? (Except possibly my...
Home for Thanksgiving
Where do you want to go when bad things happen? That place for me is home. When the day has been rough, and you feel a bit beaten up by...
Deconstruction of a Different Kind
I am in the process of dismantling my house. I say “house” because it no longer resembles the home I assembled those many years ago. It’s...
What worship and thanksgiving have to do with motherhood—encouragement for the single mom
I have recently been digging through decades of family memorabilia and came across several of my old journals. And since I wasn’t in any...
Remembering the Problem of Pride
For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life— comes not from the Father but from the...
An Easter to Remember (And Living Beyond a Pandemic When You’re Living in a Pandemic)
March 2020—early in the shutdown, much was unknown and uncertain. Here in Georgia at the time, many people thought the shutdown would...
How Not to Prepare a Home—101
It was a year marked by significant changes . . . and an uncertain future. Normal was a foreign concept. But I was overly determined to...
A Family Prepared
In our advent journey so far, we’ve toured the inward components that need tending, to be prepared for Christmas this year. We looked at...
Persisting in Prayer—The Saga Continues
A tree that stood in my backyard seemed fine to the naked eye. But it was faulty . . . weak . . . vulnerable. It was plagued on the...
When we fail to persist in prayer, the hard only gets harder
I could not get to the shower quick enough—but I hardly had it in me to scale the stairs. It had been one of those days at work. Instead...
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...
An Invitation That’s Really Real
Living alone has its ups and its downs. And the downs fell hard last week. With the whole sheltering-in-place in isolation, plus being...
Marks of Humanity
My boss is a marked man. But he’s not the only one. He’s sporting a mark across his nose . . . from wearing a mask. It’s a sign of our...
Hard Stops
Have you ever seen a horse from this angle? I have! Do you know what causes it? You guessed it: hard stops. (Go ahead and chuckle. I know...
Before the Tables Turned
Before the Light flooded my soul, before the Truth captured my heart, before I took the Hand extended to pull me from the pit, the only...
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...
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