My phone made the familiar ding, letting me know I had a Facebook notification. Thinking it was probably a comment on a post, I stopped what I was doing to check it out. Instead, it was a friend request from a woman I hadn’t seen or spoken to since high school. Excited to reconnect, I…
My parents share dinner at a restaurant on the water in Florida, where, on a whim, they decide to purchase a small sailboat. They don’t have any idea how to operate it, but that doesn’t stop them from setting sail toward the Caribbean. Soon, our tiny family embarks on a maritime adventure, complete with breathtaking…
I the Lord do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed. (Malachi 3:6 NIV) Around this time every year, I begin to see New Year memes popping up in my social media feeds. You know the ones. They typically say something like “New Year, New Me.” They talk about cutting weight or cutting crummy…
Have you ever gained a job, a friend, or even a spouse initially based on someone else’s recommendation? It matters when someone says, “I know this person.” A personal reference means so much more than words printed on a resume. Mark 8:27–29 says, Jesus and his disciples left Galilee and went up to the villages…
The pumpkin pie was fresh from the oven, perfectly browned with a glossy, smooth surface. The smell of cinnamon filled the kitchen with the fragrance of fall. The hours of work poured into this one dessert produced an amazing result that built up a moment of confidence in me. What had been a small, orange…
For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I…