Tag Archives: Faith

"Everyone will have matching family Christmas pajamas this year! 2020 has been so rough, this is how people will cope. Order early. They're expecting to run out." I read it, then scoffed. It was barel...

Well. What a crazy year this has been. How easy it's been to be focused on COVID, job loss, politics, riots, worries, fears. I don't know about you, but I need a reset. An emotional, spiritual reset, ...

One December night in 2018 I got a phone call I will never forget. We, along with my parents, had spent the evening at my child's chorus concert. As the choir sang the closing song, Hallelujah Chorus,...

As I sat to compose my thoughts today-which sounds as if thoughts handled that way come out neatly organized on crisp lines of music-the composition fell off my music stand, so to speak. What wind ble...

Ten years ago I was standing in a field next to the 100-year-old farmhouse we'd moved into eight days earlier, chatting with my eighth-grade daughter. Out of nowhere our gigantic, lovable, profoundly ...

Have you ever had someone ask you how they can pray for you and not known what to say? This happened to me as recently as last week. I was in a meeting and a trusted friend asked me that very question...

How often do we read the words in Luke or Matthew without really thinking about them? Sure, we know the basic story, but have we ever really looked at how God constructed it. As we reflect on the Chri...

Wow, I hope you were as encouraged as I was over the last few days as we received message after message reminding us of the incredible opportunity, we have to reclaim Joy in the finals months of this ...

There are plenty of Bible verses that talk about thanksgiving (there's 71 verses in the New Testament alone), so apparently being thankful is pretty important. And, sometimes ... well, I don't want to...

"I want to forgive you. And I want to forget you." If you ever found yourself years ago caught up watching the drama filled tv show, The Hills, you would recall this famous line from Lauren Conrad. An...