“Let your conversations be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.” (Col. 4:6 NIV) Opportunities abound in this month of Thanksgiving for us to have big conversations with family and friends. I don’t consider myself a very quick thinker or very witty, so this freaks me…
“In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.” (John 1:4 NIV) Turning forty this year feels both weird and freeing. While I am not lamenting the number, I do look back and think it cannot be possible that I have lived so long. I don’t think forty is old, but…
In my mind’s eye, there exists a vague memory of being in elementary school, holding a long ribbon, and dancing back and forth among my classmates. The various colored ribbons overlap one another, weaving a pattern around what I’m guessing was a tetherball pole. I realize now that it must have been a May Day…
It’s May, and that means Mother’s Day, a holiday that can be polarizing for many women. But wherever you stand as Mother’s Day approaches, we want you to know we see you. We know the difficulty of the work you have done and are doing. We understand that motherhood can be both joyous and fraught…
I’ve been thinking a lot about legacy this past year because my husband’s grandmother passed away on Valentine’s Day at the age of one hundred. Even though I was her granddaughter-in-law for only nineteen of those years, I had the fortune of developing a close relationship with her. I was also able to observe the…
I think I was born loving shoes. In a box somewhere in the attic, I have a pair of white leather baby shoes with my name in gold-leaf on the soles. My habit throughout childhood was to go to sleep with new shoes placed in their box, the lid off, by my bed so that…