If you’ve been writing, editing, attending workshops, and refining your craft, and yet you still haven’t been published, let go of impatience, trust God, and try to relax and enjoy where you are. At this moment in time, you can …
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God crafts us to become the people he created us to be. Every experience and life lesson is a tool in his hands. I’m bringing all the pieces of my story together, so my readers will be better acquainted with …
Continue Reading →Learning to Love, Part 6, an encore post from 2014: Visionaries and tacticians make powerful teams. Someone must imagine the plan, envision the dream, and speak it into being. Then the other must organize the troops, draw up the plans, …
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Learning to Love, Part 5 The definition of the Greek word agape (benevolent and selfless love) gives us theological information, but what do we do with it? How do we live it? Jesus showed us. He lived it. We are to …
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Learning to Love, Part 4 “Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at …
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Lessons in Love, Part 1 I thought I was pretty good at loving people. I care about injustice. I strive for equality. I love my family and my husband. I serve in the prison. I care for the kids at …
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Recent events have overwhelmed me. In my quiet times, I’ve been dancing up to Jesus, meditating on his Word, and yet shying away from intimate contact. When he touches my heart I run away. Today I recognized this, and I …
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Sometimes the transitions of life are difficult because they’re tragic or we’re caught off guard. Sudden and unexpected deaths or events fill this category: Heart attacks. Aneurysms. Birth of a child with serious health challenges. Cancer diagnoses. House fires. Premature …
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This day reminds us of the unrest in the world, of terrors that can strike unexpectedly, and of all that can be lost in a moment. The world is a dangerous place. War and senseless violence are increasingly commonplace. But …
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On this Labor Day holiday, you might expect me to write about the triumph of work over chaos, the straining effort of humankind to eke out a living from the wilds, and the benefits of labor to humanity. But my focus …
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