I had to apologize to a friend the other day. For years she’d shared about her struggle with anxiety and I thought I knew exactly what she meant. But now, after a year and a half of my own battle with anxiety, I’ve realized that I didn’t really know what she was talking about. …
More than once I’ve heard Christians calling each other to what sounds like blind obedience to Christ. Phrases like, just obey or it doesn’t matter how you feel or if the Bible says it, just do it can be thrown around in explanations of how to live out our faith. While there may be specific…
Every woman who has grown up in the church or dwelt in our midst for some length of time has probably heard of the Proverbs 31 woman. She’s a master of everything. Brilliant, kind, wise. She works at home but is also a successful entrepreneur who makes enough to care for her family and the…
I was laying beside him in bed, my hand locked in his, when he asked the question. The room had been silent after I’d whispered the words that I’d been struggling with–this deep heaviness that seemed to press at me every time I caught a glimpse of myself in a mirror. And then after the…
The room was bright and harsh for three in the morning. I was shaking, hard, much as I had been for the past two days, even though the pain had mostly settled out. There was blood smeared across my bare stomach and my hands had speckles of dried blood across them. My doctor was still…
Amos finished putting up hay last week. Although we rent out a lot of our land now that we don’t have cattle we still put up crops for our sheep and to sell. Baling hay is such a fascinating process. You chop the grass all apart, let it sit in the sun for hours or…
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