How do you keep a grip on your truest self? This is the challenge. In chaos and flux, it’s easy to lose yourself. When you’re unsure of yourself and under the scrutiny of likeminded people who want to nudge you …
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“I was like a stone lying in deep mud, but He that is mighty lifted me up and placed me on top of the wall” (St. Patrick). Usually, I picture Jesus as he must have looked from Peter’s perspective. As …
Continue Reading →“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 …
Continue Reading →Naively, I had assumed my five-day vacation would repair four months of overworking. I jetted off to California for relaxation with my dear little sister, supposing I’d return all in one piece again. I now laugh at my assumption. Silly …
Continue Reading →Free, unfettered, skimming the night sky, the moon smiles down on me as it makes its stealthy escape, heading west. Tomorrow I, too, shall set sail, clad in clouds, freed from earth’s bonds, brightly beaming, winging toward oceans unseen. I …
Continue Reading →Near the end of my homeschooling career, the Lord threw wide the door for fiction writing. It was time! Like a dam that had burst, a torrent of words flooded out of me and onto the page. I didn’t know …
Continue Reading →Back in July, I felt August breathing down my neck, urging me to get busy. In years past, August was when all summertime relaxation screeched to a halt for the preparation of home-school lesson plans. And then, school began. The fall …
Continue Reading →Paul wrote of the Olympic competitions: “Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable” (1 Corinthians 9:25 ESV). Since I am an Olympics junkie, it is with great delight …
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“But for you, O LORD, do I wait; it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer” (Psalm 38:15 ESV). Waiting is difficult. I should be good at waiting. I have experience. I spent fifty-four months—4 ½ years—being pregnant. …
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The Savior called me to run a marathon. He asked me to educate my own children. This isn’t his agenda for everyone; but it was his agenda for our family (see End of an Era). When he called, I was flummoxed. …
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