It's not easy to live a Jesus & others-centric life in a me-centric culture. Join me in exploring how even the messy and mundane parts of our lives can be reclaimed with meaning and purpose!
Can I be honest with you without you judging me? Ah well, I’ll just be honest with you and let you do with it as you will. Because this is about me, not you. You probably don’t deal with this problem.
Here is my honest confession: I routinely get wrapped up in other people’s issues.
Today, I heard the stories of a homeless woman and a teenage refugee boy. The boy left home when he…
“Here mom, you can have the rest of this. I’ve had enough.” It still shocks me every time. Somehow my…
There’s a lot I can’t tell you about foster care and the kids who have stayed with us, for privacy’s…
I love looking out over the ocean, or from any overlook – it always feels good to stretch my eyes!…
I am not good at “again.” All those parts of mommyhood that demand repeated attention – oh wait, that’s all…
My mind jumps. ALWAYS. It jumps from laundry to a 6-year old’s question to a text message to Facebook to a…
I wasn’t with her, and I am not with him. But I am lucky enough to have friends and family…
What if I could sort my thoughts and worries and put them away – like so many t-shirts from a suitcase at the end of a trip?
Dear Syrian Refugees, I want you to know that I am still praying for you. My heart still hurts when…
I hadn’t really read books in years. I was an English major in college, but after graduating I took a…
There’s not much worse than those little round, tasteless wafers that are often served for communion. When I eat one of…
When we first started considering foster care, my first concern was about our own kids. How they would handle having “outsiders” in our home… how we would handle taking care of that many kids…
Now, having done a couple stints with respite, I don’t know how we would do it without them!
I recently watched my daughter’s middlish-aged ballet teacher (she isn’t much older than me, so I really don’t want to call…
“Mommy, I had an accident!!” Strip the 4-year old, put her clothes and the rug in the washing machine, and…
