Come, let us return to the Lord; For he has torn us, that he may heal us; He has struck us down, and he will bind us up. (Hos. 6:1 ESV) What an unpleasant thought! The Lord has torn us and struck us down? Surely not. The Lord is my Shepherd. The God I know…
My husband gently shook my arm, and I opened my sleepy eyes. It took a minute to focus and process what I saw outside the car window. If I didn’t know better, I would have thought I was still dreaming. It looked as if we had been transported back in time and across the ocean….
I abhor running. I have a workout shirt that reads, “If you see me running, please kill whatever is chasing me.” When I think about endurance, I think about runners. I’ve managed to eke out a 5k where my feet left the ground at just enough speed to be considered a jog for the duration…
Eleven years ago, I moved to New York to work at MSNBC to cover political news. I live close enough to 30 Rockefeller Plaza that I can walk to work. Four years passed in New York, and my career had been moving along. Then, life off camera came at me with an uppercut. My father…
When I think of what it means to be a parent, I am always drawn to this quote by writer Elizabeth Stone: “Making the decision to have a child—it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” Parents move mountains to protect and nurture their children,…
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set…