She still has her Under Armour knee pads on from volleyball camp, while she asked, “Can I make a ramp?” She peddles her older sisters five-speed around the property. She grew out of her smaller one, and loves sitting higher, peddling faster, rising to challenges while fully embracing life. All the while, a war rages. Battles […]
4 Key Requirements of Successful Parents
It’s a hooded heroin, I try to discern appropriate, as my ten-year-old plays a new video game; sword glowing, balls of light burning, releasing power. In a day where people call evil good and good evil, (Isaiah 5:20)… ​ It is vital we recognize parenting as our primary mission. The choices we make in training won’t […]
A Biblical View of Racism – UNITE Linky
Before you read these words. Let’s be clear. This is not some Caucasian woman hidden in white suburbia her whole life. This is a white woman whose very first friend was African American. I’ve had friends who were Laos, and Thai. My best friend, Mexican. Some of my other friends were from India and American Indian. […]
When Your Just An Unseen Body Part. UNITE Linky
I know it is the Lord, because it feels like a thick down-comforter wrapped around me, still waters running deep… Not the crashing surface streams that rage loudly, but at the end of the day produce nothing but frustrations and division. And I see them, those lost in their perception that self-centered living will ever get […]
There is Hope…Even for America
I had hoped to go. But the wind was spinning. Waves were rising in my world. And I just didn’t think there was hope… To make the two hour drive to Olympia where Franklin Graham would present Decision America on the steps of the state capitol. And yet, I know when Jesus passed, it wasn’t the […]
Got Spiritual Muscle? UNITE Linky
“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 […]