In her book, Reclaiming Your Heart, Denise Hildreth Jones chronicles the ways her own heart shut down and how she reclaimed it. It has become one of my favorite books. What is extraordinary to me is the way God got this book into my hands before I knew I needed it. The year was 2014,…
I saw the picture on Facebook and shared it in my news feed, but I couldn’t get it out of my mind. The people in the boat traveled to Baja California, Mexico, to go whale watching in one of the lagoons where gray whales migrate to have their calves. A friend who saw my post…
He was tall, dark, and handsome, with a natural curl in his dark brown hair, twin dimples, a jawline chiseled like Michelangelo’s David, and sparkling milk chocolate eyes. He set off fireworks in my heart. All I could do was stare, thinking, Man, that guy would look great in my wedding pictures. Fortunately for me,…
In the twelve years since my first pregnancy, the small miracles and thrilling firsts have faded to simple, warm recollections of a season that has come and gone. I do remember, though, the strange paradox of knowing early on that I was pregnant but not looking or feeling different. It’s a bit mind-bending to know…
There’s a prevailing belief among Christians that once a person accepts Jesus into their heart, their life will immediately become easier and they will experience fewer struggles. I have been a victim of this thinking before. When a new hardship invariably comes along (because this world has many troubles), we feel devastated. We erroneously believe…
“God, are you even still with me in this battle? I thought you said you’d fight for me, but right now I feel so alone.” I scribbled the words in my journal at the end of a long list of old wounds that had been scraped raw during an argument with my husband the previous…