For a while, God has been patiently teaching me about the beauty of patience. His method is simple. He asks me to wait—again, and again. Waiting for a diagnosis and more waiting to see if treatments worked, waiting for a pandemic to end and life to return to “normal,” waiting for loved ones to trust…
Did you know that the United States currently averages over 750,000 divorces a year, making it one of the countries with the highest divorce rate in the world? You may quickly assume that this heartbreaking statistic results from young and impulsive decisions. However, statistics reveal a different trend. Since 1990, the age group most likely…
My husband and I are one of those sappy couples filling our social media timelines this month with public gestures of love. On our anniversary this past year, I snapped a selfie of us kissing in front of “our church,” the place we got married in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park over a decade…
I consider February a month in which to take stock of our relationships and consider how and whom we love. We take time to focus on Black history. There is our manufactured holiday on the fourteenth, which we hope is centered on love no matter our relationship status. I also think of how Jesus made…
I’ve lived in sunny places for much of my life, so when I moved to Michigan nine years ago, I had no idea what it would be like to experience a Great Lakes winter. The Midwest is gorgeous in the summer: freshwater lakes for swimming, dense forests for hiking, and long days when the sun…
He was tall, dark, and handsome, with a natural curl in his dark brown hair, twin dimples, a jawline chiseled like Michelangelo’s David, and sparkling milk chocolate eyes. He set off fireworks in my heart. All I could do was stare, thinking, Man, that guy would look great in my wedding pictures. Fortunately for me,…