Women need one another. Without each other, we shrivel, each feeling all alone in her struggle and ineffective within the body of Christ. God made us all to fit together like a beautiful stone structure—God’s spiritual house (1 Peter 2:4-10). …
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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 →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 …
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Some of us go through horrendous experiences: abuse, sexual assault, drug usage, unfaithfulness of a spouse. Perhaps we chose a road we knew was wrong, thus searing our own consciences. For those of us who stagger away from such tragedies, …
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 →Having left the markings of themselves all over my battered body, they have grown and gone out into the world, on to their own lives. The little toddlers who bowled me over with love and affection every time I came …
Continue Reading →The day started at 5:20 a.m. after ending at nearly 11:30 p.m. the night before. This had happened several days in a row. But today was different. On this day I was undertaking an entire seminary course in one day, …
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 …
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