I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!” (Mark 9:24 NLT) In this month of resurrection celebration, I often return to the beautiful story of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus and Jesus’ love for them, especially in the sisters’ time of devastating loss. Jesus hears that his dear friend Lazarus is sick, and the man’s sisters…
My son has been hospitalized at least a dozen times. He’s had three surgeries. He sees five therapists every week. Most things are not easy for him. I won’t lie: there’s a lot of hard in there that none of us asked for. I wish genetic anomalies hadn’t busted up my dreams. Have we not…
Don’t you sometimes wish you could be a child again? Life was much easier when someone else was watching over you, keeping you safe. You were seen and secure. When I was eight years old, my grandparents built a house next door to ours. While the house was under construction, my siblings and I would…
A grief buried is not the same as a heart healed. Several years ago, I was hiking in the beautiful forests of Great Smoky Mountains National Park when I noticed a tiny path veering away from the main trail and off into the woods. Wondering where it went, I decided to follow the narrow track…
Before I got married, I had specific expectations of what my marriage would and would not be. We would love each other sacrificially. We would not fight. We would work through conflict, not hold grudges. All of that lasted exactly three days after we said “I do.” We didn’t do any of it. We got…
“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.” (Matt. 5:13 ESV) I grew up in the south. The southern part of New Jersey, that is. Many…