My latest article is up at GCD: It was Christmas time and I realized we’d been living in our home for about a year. Twelve months of learning a new city, a new job, a new church, and new friends. That last part had proven to be more difficult than I’d expected. While we’d hosted […]
We’ll see you again, Faith.
Last year I posted the following reflection on visiting with my father-in-law and his sister. Today, Faith is with her Savior at last, and we have no doubt she will be “waiting for her brother at the gate.” Praise God for Faith’s life well-lived and for all she did to further the Kingdom in her […]
Stuff I Didn’t Want… (But God Knew I Needed)
I had just gone to the grocery store before picking my husband up from the airport. The next day, however, he walked through the door with several bags of groceries he thought we needed. When I saw more than half of his purchases were exact duplicates of mine, my furrowed brow and exasperated huff were […]
Reflections on Temptation from Peter’s Sifting
You’re a failure.You can’t possibly succeed in this.You don’t know what you’re doing.What’s the point? Do any of those statements sound familiar? They do for me. And I hear them most often inside my own head. As I’ve searched Scripture for help, I remember someone close to Jesus who must have experienced this type of […]