“Blessed are the poor in spirit.” (Matt 5:3) The words ring out from the page, on my daughter’s tenth birthday. A birthday shared without the one she loves close, beside her. And I think about this word, “Obedient”. About the mom who for a year offered us her own two kids, and how we walked faithful to […]
Her head is tucked tight inside of one of the books we picked up from the library. As a home-school mom, I thrive on knowledge, but also the age-old education of good old-fashioned conversation. The kind people originally shared; face-to-face, one-on-one, the older teaching the younger. Because kids, if we let them, can become more than […]
They said it was the world’s oldest alligator. Up the stairs, peering over into the secret hole where this ancient reptile lay. They said I could see him for just 50 cents. As a little girl, with my dad right beside me, at the county fair, rides spun, hearing laughter and screams enticing me to come […]
“Where was God?” The country with locked eyes to the screen fumble with the question, tilting between people’s hate and religious questioning. Did He abandon those bumping and spinning to the music? Was He behind the eyes of terrorist Omar Mateen, as He calmly rejoiced, and shot point blank those he had once associated with? Was Mateen […]
We were 36,000 feet up, on our way to the Missional Women’s Conference. I saw him from afar, and anticipated whether his six-foot, four frame would land on the empty, isle seat next to me. It did. We started talking. He was a world-traveling designer, for one of the top brands. I was a housewife, headed […]
I sat next to her because she was smart. Everyone knew her dad had ample wealth. At sixteen, she had cash handed to her whenever she wanted, a nice car, and seemingly everything a girl could dream of. But soon, I didn’t care as much about her math skills, as I sympathized with her cry for […]