I’ve been pondering the generations and the messes of family. I’m a daughter of parents on either side of eighty. I’m a mother of six adult children in their twenties and thirties. I’m a grandmother of five. Everyone is growing, including …
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First, we thank God that this acrimonious campaign is over. Both candidates were deplorable in one way or another. Neither were what we hoped and longed for when this ugly and gut-wrenching process began. But because I belong to Christ, I …
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To engage on this point, click here to go to Seriously Write. As far as we know, the election on November 8 will not end the world as we know it. Believers have been given far worse choices in elections in …
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This is what an autoimmune disease does. It wrecks our bodies and minds, crushing the jar of clay into fractured shards or pounding the wet clay into a shapeless lump. We are destroyed. This is the physical reality, the daily …
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I am broken. So are you. The older we grow, the more we realize it. We come into the world reeling from the violence of our births and equipped with a sinful nature, which begins destroying us before we’re even …
Continue Reading →I wish personal growth was easier, but it’s prolonged and painful. God pursues me, calling me into a more intimate relationship, but I keep assuming that means I must then do something. I am Martha. Self-help, self-reliance, and self-effort are so …
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In a few short weeks, we must vote. There are no good options. Why would there be when we expect mere mortals to fill the shoes only One can adequately fill? Until Jesus returns, we will be perennially disappointed in …
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Life on this earth is messy and fraught with changes in plans, disappointed expectations, relationships that can’t be fixed, and emotional upheaval. Our daily lives show this plain and simple. If we didn’t already know it, our writerly lives reinforce …
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Today The Crossover Alliance, a new Christian publishing house, features My Interracial Heritage in their series on Race and Christian Fiction. I’d love for you to read how my racial heritage inspired me to become an author. Click here to read the …
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The Backstory Yahweh is not a puny handwringing god. Rather, He is “the One forming light and creating darkness, causing well-being and creating calamity” (Isaiah 45:7a NASB). He is the Lord who does these things. He does them for our …
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