“How’s everyone’s quiet time?” my new small group leader asked the group, looking around. I was bewildered. It was my first time visiting a “small group.” Until recently, I hadn’t known there were such things. I wasn’t sure, either, what belonging to a “small group” through my newfound church would look like. And now, fifteen…
We all view life through a filter developed over time and shaped by our life experiences, convictions, and beliefs. I spent a lot of last year trying to clean the smudges off my filter. The process hasn’t been easy, and I’m learning to accept that it’s an ongoing discipline. For instance, my past experiences with…
God Values Words; We Should Too As I write this, a Twitter-verse war has erupted about the media using the word lie in relation to our current president. This comes at the same time the Southern Baptist Convention, to put it mildly, is wrestling with careless words spoken by their leader that have negatively affected women…
“Nothing is ever really gone until your mum can’t find it.” I read this line in a Fredrik Backman novel and connected with it instantly. Moms know where to find everything. “Mom, where are my earbuds?” On the table. “I can’t find my homework folder!” Look on the sofa. “Where are my white Adidas shoes?”…
One night recently, my son Eli presented a familiar request. “Tell me a story about me when I was little, Mommy.” Since he’s not quite six, I fought the urge to say, “One time when you were not quite six, you asked me to tell you a story about you when you were little.” But…
“What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow. But what you know today cannot affect what you did yesterday.” ~Condoleezza Rice I became a mother thirteen years ago. My first kid was a bit of a guinea pig. I tried several parenting strategies on her. Time-outs, counting to three, swift discipline, positive reinforcement—you…