Note: As I was writing this post about being a strong woman with a voice, of course I felt like I was at my weakest. The Lord definitely has a sense of humor. Being a strong woman is not for the faint of heart. However, I believe it is something we are called to. God…
“Preach the gospel always, if necessary use words.” ~St. Francis of Assisi I’m a therapist at a hospital. Recently, we had an irritable, uncooperative patient who was putting everyone on her floor on edge. She yelled at every staff member who came into her room. She not-so-politely asked me to leave and not return. At…
I was behind the wheel of my minivan, driving home with the kids on an average afternoon. The drive was long. My mind began to wander. I started thinking about some recent decisions my husband and I had made. Worry ensued. Anxiety settled in. I began to doubt. Then a full emotional unraveling commenced. Tears…
My husband and I were married August 5, 2000. Since then, we have moved eleven times. We have had many neighbors. Our first neighbors may have influenced our initial bad attitude toward loving the people who live around us. We lived in a questionable neighborhood at the time, in a townhouse with a shared wall. Our neighbor was,…
“You’re such a beautiful little girl.” “You look just like your mommy.” I cringe when I hear these two things strung together in the same sentence. I have long fought the urge to call myself ugly or goofy or whatever standard I didn’t meet that day. Anything but pretty. When I hear someone say this…
“Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.” (Heb. 11:1 NIV) It was spring. Every Wednesday afternoon, I left work and headed north with my bicycle strapped to the back of my car, eager to get in a nine-mile ride on Poplar Creek Trail before the mid-week service…