Casseroles are my love language. As a mom of many, author, artist, wife, chauffeur, room mother, wanna-be yogi, and personal chef of all things with the crust cut off, I am run ragged. I recall a season which was hard. I could barely face cooking dinner. Things seemed out of control and honestly, utterly hopeless….
About a year ago, a notable shift took place in our church congregation. Week by week, people from the neighborhood work release center (an incarceration facility where inmates are only allowed to leave for work and church) began filtering over, to our great delight. A few became a handful, and before long, they filled several…
Most mornings exercising in my neighborhood includes exchanging greetings with the same handful of people. We all walk the same circle at our own pace. I relish any morning walk, but a snowy winter followed by a rainy spring made this year’s summer mornings even more inviting. Yet something was missing this summer. Last year…
I first read the term placemaker on Christie Purifoy’s Instagram account. Not long after, she wrote in a blog post, “When I say I am a placemaker, I am speaking of my life purpose, not only a season of life. I am also other things. A writer. A gardener. But for me these roles are…
My fearless, four-year-old daughter was overtired. We were on round two of pool play for the day at my dad and stepmom’s new house, and she was happily jumping from a smaller elevated pool area down into their larger pool over and over again. This time, however, she forgot that she wasn’t wearing her float…
“As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend” Proverbs 27:17. (NLT) This verse reminds us to choose friends who make us better and to help shape and influence the people we love. This particular proverb is nestled in with a few others that give advice about several different kinds of relationships. I love…