The little girl leaned close to my daughter’s face, intently staring at her features and her skin. Then she jumped back and looked over at her mom with wide eyes. “Her is creepy!” she declared. My heart tightened in my chest at her words—it wasn’t the first time I’ve cringed or fought back tears at…
Many of us have one person in particular we look up to. The one who’s the kind of wife we want to be. The one who’s the kind of friend we want to be. The one who’s the kind of mother we want to be. The one who’s our best earthly picture of Jesus. In…
“They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer” (Acts 2:42 NIV). The early church based their lives on four ideals: teaching, fellowship, breaking bread, and praying. Are our churches rooted in worship and fellowship today? Are our lives? Today people, especially women, seem to work…
“I’d rather be honest than impressive.” ~Unknown I was talking to one of my friends a few months back. It was one of those conversations that made me inadvertently pause and reflect on my own behavior. She told me she’d been really working on not using her “ace card” in conversations. I was curious and…
My husband and I sat quietly in the corner, listening to the humming of the machines. It all seemed so surreal. How did we get here? Our son had been admitted to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and was unresponsive. He was on a ventilator, and they were purposely paralyzing him while working on…
I love getting Christmas cards and letters. I love to see pictures of my friends’ growing families, cute dogs, and homesteads. But with every passing year we receive fewer letters and cards than the year before. Maybe it’s because people have already posted the best photo they have on Facebook, or they feel like they’ve…