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The Joy of Choosing One Word for the Year
I wonder if we’d be so gung-ho about New Year’s resolutions if January didn’t come so quickly after December. The holiday season, with all its fun and festivities and falalas, also gives us...
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The Gift We Open after Christmas
I find that much of my time is spent as a watchman. I watch children, the news, social media. I watch for the shortest line at the grocery store, for when the stoplight will turn green, for how many...
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Break This Habit, Change Your Life
I had a realization this morning about a habit I have, one that maybe you have too. And choosing to get rid of this habit is starting to change everything. Maybe you’re doing it too? Maybe it’s...
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Calling Out Our Joy
The afternoon sun is coming in our front window, falling on the pages as I sit down at the piano my parents scrounged to buy when I was thirteen. The top is dusty, the keys badly out of tune. There...
View ArticleSearching for Silly
The 1000th time my youngest child threw a tantrum during our hectic morning routine, I knew it was time for a new reaction. In the midst of my immediate exhaustion, I looked at him, crossed my eyes,...
View ArticleHow to Make a Friendship Vow
Jonathan said, “Go in peace! The two of us have vowed friendship in God’s name, saying, ‘God will be the bond between me and you, and between my children and your children forever!’” {1 Samuel 20:42,...
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5 Tips to Create a Happier Winter Home
Just this week I really started to get spring fever. Anyone else? The house feels so dark and the days are still so short! A mid-winter slump can be hard to get out of if you don’t live in a summery...
View ArticleThe Secret to Lasting Friendship
I sat across the table listening to their laughter and admiring the bond between two older women I’d just met at a luncheon. Their friendship was uncommon and my heart craved the kind of connection...
View ArticleOn Discipleship
Discipleship. It’s one of those words that either conjures up really positive feelings or really negative ones. It can make us excited or nervous or even full of dread. I love the idea of discipleship....
View ArticleBridging the Distance
The prospect of moving 800 miles away filled me with grief. As an introverted person, anticipating the loss of the friendships I’d built over many years was deeply painful. I feared losing the...
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5 Ways to Have a Peaceful Home
Do you ever feel overwhelmed when you look around your home? Do you sometimes just want to cry when you see the piles of dishes in the sink, the clutter and bills on the desk, the ever growing to-do...
View ArticleSay “Yes!” to Your Friends
I sat on the couch with a heating pad in pain, the kind that didn’t want to go away even with medication. A handful of moms with their preschoolers were coming to my home bright and early the next...
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How to Be a Good Friend
“Your dad is the best friend I’ve ever had,” the man told me, his wife nodding in agreement. If my calculations were correct, this couple had known my dad for no more than a year and a half, two years...
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The Struggle Is Real
I’ve been feeling it again. That low-grade ache of discontentment. That inner restlessness, nagging, gnawing, something softly knocking. That unnamed longing for something more even on days I finally...
View ArticleThe Gift of Presence
“Can you come over? I just need you here.” Words often spoken through tears, through pain, pleaded with desperation. Their meaning is crystal clear: I cannot be alone right now. Life is full of...
View ArticleHow Can We Pray for You?
But in my distress I cried out to the Lord; yes, I prayed to my God for help. He heard me from his sanctuary; my cry to him reached his ears. Psalm 18:6 NLT God’s people have been a people who cry...
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