If a prophet sent by God told you that whatever you’re going through would be used for a greater purpose, I’d bet you a million dollars you’d leave the conversation mid-sentence. Not only would you leave the conversation, but you’d wonder, Is this really happening? You’d think to yourself, This person is crazy. Whatever angel…
“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first…
It was around dinnertime when I witnessed a minor infraction committed by one of my children. I saw my daughter take a yellow crayon and, for seemingly no reason, snap it in half. Before you could say “I’m telling Mom,” my other daughter came over to tattle. I approached the crayon-snapping child and asked her,…
I saw the picture on Facebook and shared it in my news feed, but I couldn’t get it out of my mind. The people in the boat traveled to Baja California, Mexico, to go whale watching in one of the lagoons where gray whales migrate to have their calves. A friend who saw my post…
I don’t know about you, but I feel like we’ve been told a whole lot of lies and tall tales about friendship, and I think I fell for most of them. For a lot of my life, I lived by that book of “truths” that turned out to actually be a book of lies (brought…
“What if your plan doesn’t work?” I was asked this question when I was around eighteen, and it haunted me for years. My plans were supposed to work because—I thought—they were based on truth. But the asker of the question knew something I didn’t yet: sometimes our plans don’t work out the way we think…