With tears streaming down her face, my client said, “I don’t know if I’ll ever be free of this way of being, of feeling like no one cares about me.” I sat still as she shared her despair, listening with compassion and deep faith. She talked about how, as she was growing up, her parents…
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,…
“What if your plan doesn’t work?” I was asked this question when I was around eighteen, and it haunted me for years. My plans were supposed to work because—I thought—they were based on truth. But the asker of the question knew something I didn’t yet: sometimes our plans don’t work out the way we think…
He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” (Rev. 21:5 NIV) No matter your circumstances over the last couple of years, I think we can all agree we are ready for something new! God’s promise in Revelation does not necessarily apply specifically to 2022, but he is a God of…
In the foyer of our home, right inside our blue front door, is a rectangular canvas tote. It has (somewhat affectionately) been named our “COVID canvas.” It has collected all the trappings of our “COVID normal.” A calendar, a pen, and a thermometer to faithfully mark each school morning. Lanyards with the beaded names of…
What do I do with the in-between time? The time between the current thing and the next thing? That space between what was and what is to come is referred to as liminal space (from the Latin limen which means “threshold”). Liminal space can also refer to a space of transition, like a hallway or a…