on life and mountaintops and valleys
Giants loom, waves crash and the fire burns. Can you and I agree not to waste any time pretending that life is a cakewalk or an endless parade of sunshine and unicorns and magical happy moments? Those moments and days and seasons exist, to be sure. They are real and...
The Spiritual Practice of Asking “Where Are You?”
“Be where your feet are.” Last Tuesday, I sat in seat 3 on row V in a darkened auditorium. Amy Grant was center stage, wearing a long flowing dress and effortlessly displaying what it looks like to combine grace, hospitality and wisdom. She walked onto the...
4 Words to Remember When You’re Lonely
Each one of us experiences moments of loneliness. Sometimes the moment lasts for a day, a week, or a season. Maybe you’re lonely right now or you can look back on a chapter in your story and see now that you were battling loneliness. I’ve found that there...
You’re Talented. (And Maybe Not in the Way You Think.)
To every man his work. Mark 13:34, emphasis mine You’re talented. Before you shake your head, deny those words, and click the little red X on this page, let me offer these words from Ann Voskamp: The size of your ministry isn’t proof of the success of your...
You Are Not Responsible for Winning
(The message of this post? It’s now a tattoo on my foot. So there’s that.) On Monday nights I go to bible study. (I’m sure there’s a lesson in here somewhere about how, without fail, I always remember as I sit in study that I’m missing...
A book for the broken hopefuls… Even If Not: Living, Loving, and Learning in the in Between
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