I recently felt the cold chill of loneliness and remembered a prayer I had written a couple of years ago for the lonely heart. Perhaps you are feeling alone or know someone who is. Here is that post: Standing at the checkout line, I swiped my credit card and waited for the prompt to sign my […]
It was a busy, hectic day. And right in the midst of it, I received a message from someone that troubled me. The more I ruminated on it, the more I worried and fretted. I told myself to stop thinking about what was bothering me. I tried to distract myself by focusing on the details and duties […]
We awoke at 4am to fly from one coast of the country to the other. Traveling is exhausting enough for one person, but as a family it seems even more so. Upon landing at the airport, my husband had to get on another plane and fly on for work. The boys and I were on […]
(Photo courtesy: Lisa Tarplee Photography) Sitting in my room one evening, enjoying some quiet, one of my children burst in through the door and said, “Did you hear that?” “Hear what?” I asked. “That sound. It was a boom or something,” he said. He stared at me with eyes wide while one hand clung to the door […]
I prayed the same prayer for almost ten years. Ten years. Some days I prayed on my knees with tears streaming. Other days I prayed the prayer merely out of habit. Sometimes I prayed with great faith in what God could do and other days I prayed with barely any faith at all. And then […]
Are you currently in a place of waiting? Perhaps you are waiting for a job, for healing, for restoration in a relationship, or for wisdom to know where you should go next.That place of waiting is a place we are all familiar with. It’s a place we find ourselves in often over the course of our […]
As I prepare to turn the page and begin a new chapter in my life, I wonder, what will this new year hold? 2015 is the year that I turn forty, a signpost marking midlife. What new joys await me this next year? What challenges? What trials and heartaches? What new lessons? What dreams will come […]