Last January, just after a Sunday morning worship service, I stopped by Trader Joe’s to buy a special dessert for a gathering of college students we planned to take them on an international mission trip last summer. It was a signature dessert from the very country we’d be traveling to, and I was excited to… Read More Wisdom Toward Outsiders
“Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.” (Psalm 37: 3) That has been my go-to verse in many situations: being a church planter’s wife in New England, mothering three kids to adulthood, navigating difficult relationships. But a global pandemic? Never in a million years would I have guessed… Read More COVID-19, Contentment, and the Korahites
Did you know that P.S. is an abbreviation for “post scriptum”? It’s Latin for “written after.” And that’s why you never write P.S.S. if you have more than one thing to add, because you want to say “post, post scriptum” meaning written after the first “written after” if that makes any sense…and not written, written after.… Read More A Battle and a Rescue: Part 3 (Post Scriptum)
I watched the kind man in the truck drive away to his early shift, I imagine. Not knowing quite what to do with myself at that point, I walked back outside of my dorm and onto the former boarding school campus where we were staying for our retreat. I knew Robert was walking somewhere on… Read More A Battle and a Rescue: Part 2
It was three weeks ago today, and it’s still so vivid in my mind. Most of my early morning runs are not very memorable – the familiar pavement, an hour of peace, lots of prayers, maybe a (one earbud) podcast – but the one I set off for on Monday, August 20 at 6:15am left… Read More A Battle and a Rescue: Part 1
I’m only pulling out two plates for dinner these days. I’m not pulling Lego guy pistols and swords out of the debris I just swept from the dining room floor anymore. There are no loud crashes of wooden block towers on wood floors heard from upstairs. I’m not making two pizzas (Mexican & pepperoni) every… Read More It’s Quiet Here
Revelation. It was the next book staring at me as I turned the page from Jude on my journey through the New Testament in recent months. My first thoughts were: Ugh. I don’t want to read Revelation. Crazy visions, bowls of wrath, angels, sealed books, dragons with seven heads, and sea beasts. No one knows… Read More Celebration Grace
Did you see the video that was circulating a few weeks back featuring the little girl from Ireland who was brokenhearted that she wasn’t invited to the Royal Wedding? She truly believed she was going to “Meghan’s wedding,” and when her mom explained that you have to be royalty – a real princess, in order… Read More Hurdles and Hope
Now I can say it: May is crazy. Which is why it’s May 21 and I haven’t written anything since May 4. Recently, I heard someone describe it as the December of the spring, but I think it may be crazier than that holiday month, because there are so many different occasions rather than just… Read More Radiant May
I was going to entitle this post May is cray-cray, but then I realized it’s not even May yet. Yikes. May will indeed be crazy – baptisms, a wedding, graduations, Kayla’s thesis presentation day, a family reunion in Texas – but it will be also be wonderfully filled with celebration. I can’t wait. Maybe one… Read More Last Week & A Winner