When I was fifteen years old, my sister birthed her first baby boy before she even graduated high school, which coincided with our parents’ divorce, moving to a different town, and a remarriage. Life was inside out and upside down. My grief masqueraded as anger, and I blamed my sister for almost everything that was…
Lamentations 3:22-26 says, ‘Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him. The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the…
We went through fire and through water; yet you have brought us out to a place of abundance. (Ps. 66:12 ESV) My mom must have kept every letter I ever wrote to her. Last year, when she was moving into a smaller home, she gave them back. In the days when long-distance phone calls were…
We had been waiting in line for, well, as long as you wait in a line at Disney World. When it was our turn, my girls would be riding Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin together while Joe, my husband, and I shared a spaceship with our preteen son, Peyton. The ride involves a game where…
“Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.” (John 15:4 ESV) I remember lying in bed at night as a teenager, reviewing everything I needed for the next day at school. Were the papers signed?…
As I drove to work in the midst of a crazy, five-week stretch of life, God reminded me he always knows best. My husband, Ordell, and I had been talking about moving closer to the college where we both work for months. It was in the middle of the five-week craziness that God gifted us…