As a child, I loved to run my fingers along the stitching of my grandmother’s quilts. They were a labor of love for her. Each time my mother reported an impending visit from the stork, my grandmother would smile and say, “I’ll get started on the quilt.” She’d stitch and pray, petitioning heaven with her…
What do we do when healing doesn’t come? When we’ve prayed all the prayers our friends and spiritual mentors told us to pray, when everyone in the Christian community is looking at us like it must be our fault, when we’ve confessed all our sins and done all we can do, yet healing doesn’t come. I…
There are few things Christians love to talk about as much as “going deeper in our walk with Christ.” We love to gather and read books about it, sing songs about it, pray about it, and even write about it. But one thing it seems we don’t enjoy is actually going deeper with Christ. Why?…
Last Christmas was a bust in every way. I was too sick to enjoy gift exchanges, attend holiday services, or detect the slightest hint of the Christmas spirit in the air. I wasn’t the only Grinch in the house, either. My big kids couldn’t be bothered to look up from their phones for even a…
I face some real challenges in my life. Health is a carrot ever dangled before me. Day after day, I press toward the mark. Did you ever sing that old-school song, “Because he lives, I can face tomorrow. Because he lives, all fear is gone. Because I know he holds the future, and life is…
I am the woman at the well. Jesus came and found me where I should not have been. Doing the things that left me empty and hollow inside, void of purpose and meaning. He found me there thirsty and desperate—crying out to be seen, celebrated, and loved, instead of trampled underfoot and forgotten. He found…