One of the most amazing things about the Bible is that the authors didn’t fully comprehend what they were writing. As a shepherd boy, David wrote poems of praise to pass the time in the fields and journaled prayers on anguish and praise to God later in life. Paul wrote letters from a prison cell…
This is the third blog post I’ve written in the past twelve hours. I thought I had a great plan. The words had been flowing through my mind for the past couple of weeks, and I was going to write about social media influencers and our kids’ fascination with them. I even had some great…
“Am I being led by love or pushed by fear?” Emily P. Freeman asks in one episode of her podcast. One of my children instantly comes to mind. He has a tendency to forcefully nudge people out of the way when he wants to get to where everyone else is going. Though this is slightly…
I have a noisy life. Oh, you too? I thought that might be the case. Of course, by “noisy,” we don’t always mean audibly noisy. We mean noisy inside our own minds, don’t we? Yes, I have noisy children who chatter endlessly, who get loud in play and louder in distress or indignation, children who…
I love a good pumpkin spice latte. But as soon as I take my first sip of one in early- to mid- September, my brain and body begin feeling as if they’re being forcibly dragged to the end of the calendar year—and with increasing urgency. By October 1, the holiday season is here for most…
I’ve been thinking a lot about legacy this past year because my husband’s grandmother passed away on Valentine’s Day at the age of one hundred. Even though I was her granddaughter-in-law for only nineteen of those years, I had the fortune of developing a close relationship with her. I was also able to observe the…