I love when I’m asked how my husband Ben and I met because most people are a little surprised by our unconventional meeting at Starbucks one night in 2008. I made a last-minute decision to go out with friends for coffee (and avoid working on my graduate thesis), and he had an atypical evening off…
Be hospitable to one another without complaining. Just as each one has received a gift, use it to serve others, as good stewards of the varied grace of God. (1 Peter 4:9–10 CSB) Do you think people tend to be self-centered? I do, and I think it about myself, not just others. Self-centeredness seems to…
We had been waiting in line for, well, as long as you wait in a line at Disney World. When it was our turn, my girls would be riding Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin together while Joe, my husband, and I shared a spaceship with our preteen son, Peyton. The ride involves a game where…
“What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace, be warmed and filled,’ without giving them the things needed…
Through the years, I’ve learned that when I don’t look at the whole picture before I say yes to a request, I make myself crazy and my family miserable. When people ask for help, I jump in and rarely leave margin for myself. At least, I used to. Now I pause. I am a recovering…
My daughter is in that toddler stage. You know the one: the pulling-things-off-the-counter, scribbling-on-the-wall, face-smeared-in-peanut-butter stage. (Where did she even get that peanut butter? Oh, yes. From the puppy’s treat toy!) All this to say, my daughter is a busy one-and-a-half-year-old! She received a set of toy kitchen pots and pans for Christmas. Still, when…