The other day, I received a call from a friend. She was in tears, overwhelmed with her to-do list—not just work stress, but also a kiddo struggling with mean girls, an aging mom needing rides to the doctor’s office, and a looming deadline for her writing. Worse, she felt guilty because she couldn’t figure out…
Recently, while reading through 1 Corinthians, I came to a full stop at chapter 3, verse 5. Paul was talking about how he had heard the Corinthian believers were dividing into factions. They seemed to have been bragging about who were the better Christians. “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” or “I…
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…
I define clutter as anything that continually gets out of control in my own home. Defining clutter this way has improved my home because this definition means clutter is no longer an ambiguous idea. I no longer need to evaluate each item in my home for its potential to be used in the future or…
Each of us is an Innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus. ~Neal A. Maxwell In August 1993, we drove from Colorado to New York with a twenty-two-month-old and a three-year-old. The first evening we stopped around seven to get a room. Town after town along the interstate met us with the…