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I Fell Down Saturday
Saturday, I was walking next to my husband on a boardwalk and talking on the phone to my daughter. Unfortunately one of the boards wasn’t screwed down however, so when my husband stepped on it, the other end popped up catching my ankles in-stride. Laying on the ground...
Not My Jewelry!
“Lent is a time of returning to God. It is a time to confess how we keep looking for joy, peace, and satisfaction in the many people and things surrounding us, without really finding what we desire.” - Henri NouwenRecently when our pastor talked about giving up...
New Year’s Invitations
Sean, Wade, Doug, Renee, Joanna, and Thom. After praying this morning for friends battling cancer, I went through my list of New Year “Invitations” – things in 2025 to help me experience Christ, and the life He’s purposed for me more richly and intimately. Then I read...
Flying Solo
For the past few weeks, I’ve been over-thinking how to fit my entire book table into one suitcase to take to Texas tomorrow. Studying for and mulling over the content of my talks has added another layer of stress. And so has wondering how a homebody and introvert like...
That Wasn’t the Kind of Joy I Wanted
What if your broken marriage, struggling kids, or that job you hate, never gets better? Would Jesus be more than a cliché of “enough”? Could you have joy? I’ve been asking myself this a lot lately. I love that song, “You’re never going to let me down.” I abstractly...
A Trip from Hell
“If only I could find a trace of evidence that it was really possible for a Ghost to stay – that the choice was not only a cruel comedy – I would not go back." In C.S. Lewis’ book, The Great Divorce, a man boards a bus from hell bound toward heaven. He and the other...