The Church is Not Dead (Despite How it Looks Right Now)

Like the photo of a wrecking ball, smashing the walls of a Chinese Church. I saw the destruction coming. I felt the event happening. No, there was no steal ball, no dust and smoke, no rubble or physical substance left lifeless along the earth. But destruction happened, nonetheless. Loss. Internal scars that crushed even the most […]

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A War Has Started

A war started yesterday. We were driving away from one church and headed to another, and Amir Tsarfati, who we had heard speak a few years ago, shared the heartbreaking news. Russia had been surrounding Ukraine like a swarm of locus’; posturing, posing, and purposefully intending to strike Ukraine, though Ukraine had done nothing wrong. Then, […]

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After Over 10 Years of Blogging, It’s Finally Here!

Friends, I have been blogging for over 10 years….TEN! That is a lot of words, and questioning, digging, and Scripture sharing! Over the years, my writing has grown from short, few-line, poetic prose, to long, often 1,000 word posts, sharing what God has deposits in my bones, hours and sometimes days earlier. (I have been trying […]

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Stop Wrestling God for the Pen

As a parent, I have one particular child who is unusually obedient. She says “yes” with a willing heart, whether I ask her to clean up her room or empty the dishwasher. I have another child who struggles. She had a hard past and sometimes wrestled with whether she can trust what someone is asking of […]

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