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. […]
The Pursuit of Us (from Gospel-Centered Discipleship)
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 […]
Welcome back!
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 […]
Don’t Know How to Help? Try Visiting.
It had been a difficult few days. A loved one was drowning in pain and I didn’t know how to help. So I put on my tennis shoes and headed outside. Walking helps me focus my thoughts, and it’s my favorite time to listen to Scripture. I picked up where I’d left off that morning […]
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 […]
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