I was barely a teenager the first time I considered Jesus as “the way, the truth, and the life.” With the road stretched out in front of me, the concept seemed true, but one for the grown-ups to wrestle with. In college, on the heels of a difficult breakup, I found myself facing a crossroads. […]
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It’s come to my attention that the subscription feature on my site stopped working some time ago. I finally got around to installing a new subscription mechanism, and to cleaning up a few things on my site. (P.S. Sorry to anyone who received one of my testing messages.) If you haven’t subscribed yet, what are […]
Noticing My Messes and Being Inspired to Clean Up
My windows were really dirty. My office shares space with my bedroom, so I spend an exorbitant amount of time looking through these windows, and it had been months since they had been cleaned. But it was the type of dirty we just lived with—not a crisis, certainly a low priority. Given these non-tilt-in windows […]
It’s all about the preparation
With a pandemic-fueled hunger for truth, this summer I decided to double-down on my scripture reading. So I started a Dwell App* plan that completes the Bible in 90 days. I’d read the Bible-in-a-year before, but an hour a day felt like a challenge. I wasn’t wrong. I spent 67.5 hours immersed in the Old […]
Tough Season?
We all have them–those times when life just gets really really hard. In one of my hardest seasons yet, I can vividly recall how alone and scared I felt. I was desperate to talk with someone who had lived through it and actually survived. I vowed that, if it was within my power, I would […]
Thankful to be thankful
Ever learned another language? Doing so forces you to confront what you thought you knew about your native language. I remember when I was first learning French and always got confused about where to put the adjectives. But it’s not like that in English, I tried to complain. Apparently it is. I just didn’t know […]