I didn’t pick a word for 2022, but if I had to it would probably be breaking. I learned personally in 2022 how breaking, although hard and painful, can be beautiful. The castles I had built were crumbling and the achievements and status that I wore proudly morphed into something I just wanted to hide. There…
My husband says I could stay in the deep end for hours. He says I’m like an Olympic swimmer. But he’s definitely not talking about the pool; he’s talking about my tolerance of emotional interactions and expression. Because emotions are deep, and your emotions are a really deep and meaningful part of who you are….
Have you noticed that Jesus usually answered a question asked (or demanded) of him with a question? But not because he needed that answer. He asked questions to see what came up in the one asking the initial question. I have also noticed, at least in my life’s story, that God does the same thing….
I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now.” ~C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle In The Last Battle, the final volume of The Chronicles of Narnia, Jewel the unicorn finds the…
It was early autumn. The leaves on the trees were golden as the afternoon sun slid behind the skyscrapers on my urban college campus. I stood at my professor’s car feeling alive. After a stimulating class discussion, I discovered another layer of thought with my fellow students. As I helped my professor with her bags,…
Early in my teaching career, an academic dean said to me and my colleagues, “You are the curriculum.” My life would educate my students as much as any textbook or lesson plan. Long after those first-year college students forgot how to structure an effective introductory paragraph or how to avoid run-on sentences, they would remember…