Exploring the Wild & Beautiful Places of Faith
We've just arrived and Ms. Dinah is telling us how we're visiting just a year shy of her husband's one year death anniversary. One day he's out on his ATV and the whole thing hits a rock and flips over and in the blink of an eye, he's gone. A pillar in the community taken down…
I'm slamming cupboards and putting down breakfast bowls just a little too hard this Sunday morning. Before we're out the door, there are tears and wails and I'm this close to calling the whole thing quits. Driving down the road, the tension is thick in the car and this ugly truth glares bright: We're a car of…
Continue reading ➞ When You’re Pretty Sure You’re Failing Your Kids
It's lunch time and we're poking at our cobb salad when the gut wrenching truth slips out: I've felt lonely since I was 8. So yeah, we're going on a good 20+ years of this same chorus. Like that unexpected guest who doesn't know when they've overstayed their welcome, loneliness keeps showing up as a bystander…
Two pink lines slowly came into focus and my heart began to seize up inside my chest. Where there should have been excitement, all I could feel was dread and fear that threatened to choke the very air out of my lungs. While my husband chatted excitedly over breakfast, I fought back tears. Tears that…
Continue reading ➞ When You Want To Be More Than Just Pro-Life or Pro-Choice
It’s two days before the new year hits and I’m sitting on our air mattress bed with colored pens strewed around me, scribbling out answers to questions: What have I been chasing? What GOOD happened in 2016 and what did I learn? What challenges did I experience in 2016 and what did I learn? What…
Continue reading ➞ When You’re Looking For Purpose In A New Year
We arrive at the Denver airport with five bags carrying the essentials we think we’ll need for the next three months. Another move, another packing up and leaving and learning to adapt our rhythms to a new place. It's been over two years that we haven’t had a house or an apartment and yet we’ve never…
For years, years, I've publicly bemoaned the dismal divorce rate in America. Fifty percent of marriage end in divorce! And the numbers are no better for calling themselves Christ-followers! Like all that pew sitting and kneel bending isn't making any difference. We're caught in this endless cycle of hopelessness when it comes to our most sacred of unions.…
