The skies were painted pink that night. Swirls and arches of color that filled the shadows with rainbows. We sat in the dining room and ate grilled ham with pineapple, scooped up spoonfuls of broccoli salad, and laughed until our sides ached. When we left to drive home, long after the last shades of pink…
We’re driving to church yesterday and my husband says, “I feel like I’m frayed at the edges, and any second I could unravel.” I’m wiping away tears as I nod. Yes, this is life. You walk and follow and sometimes God leads down some pretty dark and wandering roads. But then we’re at church, so…
There are days when nothing you’ve ever learned in the past can tell you what to do in the moment. It’s like you’re facing a new road, blindfolded. When I was eighteen, my grandparents planned to move to Florida to live with my parents. They always came down, usually for a month or so, and…
Once upon a time I thought infertility was destroying my faith. I didn’t realize that true faith is indestructible. The part of me that was crumbling? It wasn’t, nor had it ever been, faith. James knew this truth, which is why he instructed the church in James 1 to, “Count it all joy when you…
We’re reading through I Corinthians in Bible Study on Sunday nights. Way back in the college days I studied it verse-by-verse. Now, with this whole group of brothers and sister in the faith, we are looking at it thought-by-thought and I’m loving it. There is a time and season for everything, and this is my…
I think I learned to love Job the most when I was battling depression. I struggled with the conversation between Job and his friends, but then I would sit and read God’s answers over and over. His glory hushed the scream of my pain. His power quieted the spinning thoughts in my head. I read…
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