“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10 ESV). Sometimes we lose ourselves. This is a tragedy, because there is no one else like …
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In the middle of our earthly Christmas homegoing to visit parental home and family, my spiritual growth feels like a Band-aid over the gaping wound of my sinful nature and my brokenness. Feeling like a fragile fraud, a barely …
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(Six years ago, when I penned this, a school shooting occurred during the Christmas season at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut.) This year, I wanted to write about warm Christmas memories and stockings hung by cozy fireplaces, but then …
Continue Reading →Perhaps your Great-Grandma is crazy. If not her, maybe it’s your sister-in-law, your uncle, or your Dad. Holidays bring out the craziness. The stories are legendary. Everyone tiptoes around Grandma, trying not to set her off, whispering about her eccentricities, fixing …
Continue Reading →Today I reached tears again in this publishing journey. For a person who idolizes task completion, this industry is a bear! I write for many varied venues and in several diverse genres. Each segment of the publishing world has dissimilar …
Continue Reading →Eucharisteo! Thanksgiving! Let us give thanks for the simple comforts and pleasures we enjoy, merely by living in this country. Most of our daily blessings are true for all Americans, not all, but most. However, they are not the norm …
Continue Reading →We long to be known. In fact, we yearn for someone to understand, to be on the same page, to “get” us. This is the desire of our hearts. The aching wound of estrangement from others often drags us down. …
Continue Reading →This morning concern for my country, my economic prospects, the future welfare of my children and grandchildren, and my eroding religious liberties propelled me from my bed in the pitch-black predawn. Anxiety gnawed at my stomach. Hopeless permeated my considerations. …
Continue Reading →Providing a radiant illustration of our future glory, my dear friend, swathed all in white, floated down the aisle toward her overcome bridegroom. Smiling as hard as a man could smile, he eagerly awaited her arrival, his smile leaking out …
Continue Reading →Everyone’s time is limited. We all have twenty-four hours in a day. Those are the boundaries. Every single day we’re bombarded with demands on our time. Information pours in! Emails, letters, books, reports, and articles pull and tug us in …
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