Lord, help me to realize how brief my time on earth will be. Help me to know that I am here for but a moment more. (Psalm 39:4 TLB) I was downstairs on our elliptical, trying to get in a quick workout before I had to run my girls to their afternoon dance class. I…
Every week I organize our family’s vitamins and medicine in pill boxes according to each member’s health needs. The process isn’t labor intensive, but I don’t delegate it because it’s important to me that everyone has the resources they need to stay healthy. Yet almost every day the same scene plays out in our home….
My phone made the familiar ding, letting me know I had a Facebook notification. Thinking it was probably a comment on a post, I stopped what I was doing to check it out. Instead, it was a friend request from a woman I hadn’t seen or spoken to since high school. Excited to reconnect, I…
I have never celebrated Valentine’s Day. Perhaps I should clarify: I’ve never celebrated Valentine’s Day as part of a couple. Since I’m a forty-two-year-old who’s been married almost twelve years, you would think I’d have had many a romantic February 14. The reality, though, is that I have never had a Hallmark movie–style Valentine’s Day….
“How are you?” “I’m fine.” Why do we answer that question with “I’m fine”? Are we really? “Fine” is rarely a truthful answer to the question for me. I’m either great, or I’m really not. Sometimes a stranger is asking the question, and it might not make sense to alarm that person by going into…
Moreover, he said to me, “Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears. And go to the exiles, to your people, and speak to them and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ whether they hear or refuse to hear.” (Ezek….