Tag Archives: Faith

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...

I am not a gardener by any means but I love flowers, what woman doesn't. I so badly wanted to learn how to grow my own flowers. I have a friend that gave me Dahlia tubers and instructed me how and whe...

I love to travel. Growing up, our family didn't have a ton of money leftover in the budget for traveling, but my mom's cousin and her husband had a condo in Colorado that they let us use. It allowed u...

I almost missed it because I was looking at my phone. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a tarp, dirty and paint-splattered. Curious, I looked up, and saw a marvelous mural going up in Edmonds. An...

As she was lying down in the hospital bed, my daughter, Trissy, began laughing as she said, "Well mom. This is a September to Remember." We began reminiscing about our conversation we had a few days b...