When I took an inventory of my soul and relationships at thirty-eight years old, I realized something had to change if I wanted the next four decades of my life to look different than the first; I recognized that the relational patterns I was walking in needed to...
In the pause between Christmas and New Year's, when things slow down long enough to think about what the new year could look like, don't forget to make room to do the good and necessary work of tending to the unseen, hidden places of your heart and soul. Although it...
Two weeks ago, I shared a new tool I created called How to Turn Loss Into Gain. If you haven't already seen it, click HERE to download. I would encourage you over the next several weeks as the year draws to a close that you take some time to pause in a few moments of...
We all wear so many masks. In order to survive and safeguard our hearts, we pretend to be people we are not in order to gain acceptance as the people we think we ought to be. Prayer is the one place on earth my masks can completely come off. Prayer is the one place on...
I've always wanted to be secure. Secure in my friendships. Secure in my my abilities. Secure in my place in a room full of strangers or in the living room of my very own home. But security is tough to come by. Learning to be secure, or confident, in who I am and...
That first two weeks of school are sort of like an endurance test for moms. Not only are we required to have our children at the thing (like, say, school for example) in the appropriate uniform, clothes, costume, leotard, jersey, etc, with the appropriate props (like...
Sometimes we don't run on our own two feet; sometimes we run on our knees. That's how I felt like running last Friday when I woke up and heard the news about the shooting in Dallas...and the shooting before that...and the shooting before that. There really aren't any...
The week before Thanksgiving, I wanted to eat lean. My goal was to be on a strict diet of protein, vegetables, fruits, and water, forgoing all desserts and small bites of chocolate I steal like a thief from the pantry once the kids have gone to bed. I wanted to eat...
Persistence is not usually a word I think about when I think about prayer. Usually, concepts like "holiness," or "intimacy," or "down-on-your-knees-with-your-face-stuck-in-the-carpet-while-the-snot-and-tears-flow," (really theologically appropriate kind of things) are...