Do you ever feel God nudging you to take action, but when you look at the circumstances, conditions don’t seem favorable for success? As a result, you procrastinate. You postpone. You tell yourself you’re waiting for the perfect time. I’m a cautious, better-to-be-safe-than-sorry type of person. When I have to make a decision, I explore…
In college, I ran through several majors. To be more explicit, I ran through seven majors. At one point, I was an elementary education major. But it turns out you can’t just think kids are cute and be a teacher. You have to like kids and want to educate them. I figured out rather quickly…
It was early autumn. The leaves on the trees were golden as the afternoon sun slid behind the skyscrapers on my urban college campus. I stood at my professor’s car feeling alive. After a stimulating class discussion, I discovered another layer of thought with my fellow students. As I helped my professor with her bags,…
Do you ever have so many thoughts swirling around in your head that you can’t process them all? Recently, I spent the evening on my laptop, jumping from one internet article to the next. So many choices. So many voices. How could I select the best and bypass the rest? I went to bed feeling…
“So give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong.” (1 Kings 3:9 NIV) A girl in the high school class I taught showed up one morning in a T-shirt that had Mickey Mouse emblazoned on the front. I paid it little attention. It never occurred to me that Mickey…
Like many other women I know, I consider myself a “part of the solution, not part of the problem” kind of woman. Our values include not complaining or pointing fingers. Not sitting back and whining while others do the heavy lifting to right wrongs or to address problems in our world. Jesus modeled a face-to-face,…