“He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seeds for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.” (2 Cor. 9:10 ESV) In the Midwest, January may seem like an odd time to be sowing seeds. Our grass is dormant and frost-covered. Our ground is so frozen…
Standing during worship, breathing out the words of Kristene DiMarco’s song “He’s in the Waiting” as a prayer of peace for my soul, I caught myself contemplating the past few years. I had recently left a position I loved to engage in a life I needed. Years of working a high-stress job had taken a…
On a cold, late December night over a decade ago, I walked behind the thrifted couch in the living room of my first home and began to tug at a corner of the bedraggled carpet. With much effort and accompanying dust, that initial corner broke free of the tack strip. That first pull became a…
I’m the youngest of five children, as well as the only girl. It’s often assumed that I must have been the favorite in my family, but life was more complicated than that, and it would take volumes to explain how emotional issues arose in a family with two loving, committed parents. I stopped trying to…
I can do anything for a season. This became my survival mantra during a particularly difficult season in 2016 after a 600-mile move from Pennsylvania to South Carolina, downsizing from a 2,000–square-foot house to a 1,200-square-foot condo, a change in vocation (and drastic cut in income) for my husband, and me leaving a job where…
We went through fire and through water; yet you have brought us out to a place of abundance. (Ps. 66:12 ESV) My mom must have kept every letter I ever wrote to her. Last year, when she was moving into a smaller home, she gave them back. In the days when long-distance phone calls were…