If life is a disaster when you can't have everything just like you want it, then life is a disaster most of the time. I've been recovering from all-or-nothing thinking for quite a while now. I grew up thinking about life in a drastic sort of way. It was either perfection or failure (you can ... read more
Five Lovely Lessons from a Stress Fracture: Lesson 1
Hello 2017, Goodbye Stress Fracture! In 2016, our family had a lot of stress—moving stress, job stress, buying/selling house stress, changing churches stress, and bone stress. Yes—that was me—I was the one with the bone stress. It all started with the infamous big-toe-yoga injury of March 2016. ... read more
Remember: God Loves a Happy Ending
It Can Be Hard to Find a Happy Ending I love a happy ending. But these days, it's hard to find a book or movie where the guy gets the girl, the hero wins, and all is set right in the end. Instead, the stories we read and watch end in broken ways. We close the cover or turn off the TV feeling a ... read more
Peace and a #MoreAbundantLife
This past Spring, I fell in love with this verse: "You know the contents of the message which He sent to Israel, announcing the good news (Gospel) of peace by Jesus Christ, Who is Lord of all—" (Acts 10:36, AMP). The Gospel is peace with God. It feels like the word Gospel gets a ... read more
She Asked: How Did You Get Here?
This post was written in response to my friend Helen's questions to me. She writes at Living My Given Life. She asked me: Can you send me a short testimony about you? Will you tell me how you came to know Christ? Can you please explain why you wrote this ebook? Here is what I wrote to ... read more
Prodigal Confessions and Reconciliation
From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who ... read more
Words Are Powerful, But “I’m Sorry” Isn’t Enough…
Have you ever apologized to someone and…The. Words. Just. Fell. Flat? Sometimes we feel it keenly, that our apology doesn’t make things right. Painful. We strive to teach our kids this practice too: to apologize. But often, the forced apology doesn’t really make things right; it fuels the argument ... read more
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