Every two years, my husband has one of two conversations with me—either about the place we’re all moving to next or the location of his upcoming deployment. Not one to readily send my husband off to war, the deployment discussions aren’t my favorite pastime. Recently, though, we talked about our next move. Contrary to widespread…
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens. (Ecclesiastes 3:1 NIV) We all experience seasons in our lives, seasons of joy and resurrection but also of struggle and death. Those latter “winter” seasons are challenging. We draw ourselves inward for protection and warmth. We believe that we possess…
I stood at the edge of the Pacific Ocean, saltwater burning my throat, sand between my teeth, my wild curls wet and windswept. I was squinting because I had just lost my favorite pair of sunglasses among the waves. This was my first real encounter with the ocean, and I didn’t know it had so…
My father said something to me recently, words that have haunted many of my waking moments and caused me to seek the Lord when I wake with a pounding in my chest. Upon learning that he had been diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver, my father bitterly decried the latter half of his life as…
Are you convinced fear of the unknown is a valid boundary? Sometimes I am. According to the Exeter Daily, “The African impala can jump to a height of over 10 feet and cover a distance of greater than 30 feet. Yet these magnificent creatures can be kept in an enclosure in any zoo with a 3…
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1 KJV) I sat in chapel at Bible college my freshman year, starry-eyed with dreams for the future. I was convinced that being a missionary was my destiny, and I was excited to fulfill my purpose in the world….