One of the biggest questions of the Christian life is, What is God calling me to do? I often hear young people ask this question, but the truth is that I ask it of myself on an almost-daily basis. What about today, God? What do you want from me right now? My dream is to align my heart,…
Two days ago I was walking across the haymow with a small square bale in my hands when the floor disappeared from under me. The next thing I knew my elbows were cracking against the splintered edges of the boards and I was throwing myself sideways to keep from falling the eight feet down onto…
Depression. Even the word feels hopeless. I remember when I was in the worst of it. I was battling physical issues that caused hormonal imbalances, but there was something much deeper going on. An inside battle was raging. Scripture says that our battle is “not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities,…
She had bruises on her neck that Sunday afternoon. My breath caught hard and I looked down to blink back tears. I wanted to just scoop her up and take her away to some place where this pain could never touch her again. But she was an adult and there are limits to what even…
Once a year we have doughnut day. It’s one of the more perfect traditions in my circle of friends. But, of course, it’s not about the doughnuts. Okay, maybe a little about the doughnuts. But it’s mostly about the people. It’s about Jan and her daughter. The one with the swinging braids and tender heart….
Every once in awhile something really fun takes place… like, seeing a Facebook post by a friend of mine that says, “I signed a book contract!” Rachelle Rae and I have written for the same publication for some time, so when her news hit I scurried off (can you do that online?) to send her…
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