Exploring the Wild & Beautiful Places of Faith
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.…
She's twirling around in ballet shoes and that twice-patched princess dress that is still holding on while the music belts out from the computer. Like this dance is her act of worship for her Maker. And I wonder how many little girls start this way, dancing with deep joy and innocent abandon, only to end up being…
Continue reading ➞ When You Need a Way to Deal with This Angry World
The book arrived in the mail the day before my birthday. "The Path of Loneliness: Finding Your Way Through the Wilderness to God," by the venerable Elizabeth Elliot. Yeah, it's a good friend who sends you a book on loneliness for your birthday. Because she knows what I don't have to say, that these past years of…
When we moved those 17 times in a year and My Man went without work for nearly two years, the hardest part of it all wasn't boxing up all our things to put away in storage and living out of suitcases. It wasn't carting my daughter around for a year, setting up and tearing down that…
"Pick some peaches while we're away, they should ripen up this week," says my dad as he heads out the door early Monday for a long drive down the West Coast. So we pick peaches. And the boxes start filling up the kitchen and they're spilling onto the table and the chairs and to look…
Continue reading ➞ When You’re Waking Up to A Season of Abundance
