It happened over a decade ago, but I remember it like it was yesterday. Less than a year after my husband accepted his dream job in the National Football League, working for a coach he admired, our staff was fired. I was devastated. I grieved for my husband and for my son, who would now…
A grief buried is not the same as a heart healed. Several years ago, I was hiking in the beautiful forests of Great Smoky Mountains National Park when I noticed a tiny path veering away from the main trail and off into the woods. Wondering where it went, I decided to follow the narrow track…
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,…
The other day, a friend sent me a meme depicting two people on a track. The person in the back is running at full speed, quickly gaining on the other. This sprinter is labeled “Beginning of 2022.” The person he’s about to catch is labeled “Me Still Trying to Process 2020.” Now, if that’s not…
You might be familiar with this iconic line from the hit series Friends. Every time Joey (Matt LeBlanc) met a new woman, he would inevitably spew his famous line, “How you doin’?” In return, the woman would usually blush and bat her eyes, smitten by him. It’s become a classic Friends line. How are you?…
“I am the Good Shepherd. I know my own sheep and my own sheep know me.” (John 10:14 MSG) Three years ago, my son and I moved to a goat farm. The goats (and chickens and pigs) belonged to my landlords, so we got all the benefits of living in a pastoral environment without any…