When I caught mono in 2013, it propelled into high gear the autoimmune disorder I had no idea was already attacking my body. I was prepping Refuge, my first novel, for publication and was excited about everything that lay before …
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Embracing what we do not like, because we know God has allowed it for our good, our refining, and our growth isn’t as tidy as it sounds. It involves late nights of staring at the blackened ceiling, of deliberately not …
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If you’ve been sick for a long time and no one can tell you what’s wrong, I’m writing to you. Relief may be in sight. But action is required. I was just diagnosed with CREST syndrome, also known as limited …
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I didn’t want to be part of a real-life science fiction story where mystery ailments strike hard at the general populace. Is it a sinister plot? Has the government been testing chemical warfare on us as part of a secret …
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I write my posts several weeks in advance. As I prepare this post, I haven’t yet seen the specialist who will be diagnosing my autoimmune disorder this month. However, by the time you read this, I will have already been …
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We have a fallacy in our American thinking. We often assume “positive thinking” will gain us everything. We rarely see sickness, death, or tragedy, and it seems foreign to us. We forget the day will come when no amount of …
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When I converted our homeschool program to a classical form of study in 2004, we discovered the joy of learning history, theology, and the arts linked together and in chronological order. Not only did it imprint upon us the events …
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Making resolutions is a significant part of my spiritual, personal, and professional growth – my progress as a whole person. This requires deep introspection, complete honesty, and evaluation of past successes and failures. I start the inner prodding in early …
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God is at work in the prisons. His love runs deep for those who are incarcerated. What happens there is near and dear to His heart, so much so that Christ said that assisting prisoners, strangers such as refugees, the …
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This Christmas season I released a novel about the creation, Fallen: A Biblical Story of Good and Evil. In this tale, based upon the early chapters of Genesis, God puts his eternal plan into motion when His Son crafts the …
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