I am tired of living in fear, like my goat afraid of the snow, so I’m giving up fear for Lent. Because… We can’t meet our destiny if we never get out of our rut. This time one year ago I made a plan to give up fear for Lent – a clever twist on Read more…
Celebrate Where You Are
God uses strange tools to transform our perspective – like raindrops reflecting back the beauty of our surroundings. Reminders to celebrate where you are. Who knew that spending the past three seasons of harvest driving a wheat truck, far removed from my career path of Writer and Recruiter, could so transform my heart around so Read more…
He Makes All Things Beautiful
I’ve been looking back a lot lately, at some of the ugliest times in my life. Not out of morbid fixation, but because there is a strange beauty in those stories that now serve to give others hope. It reminds me of a bird I once saw – at first glance I believed it was Read more…
Difficulties Are Like Bridges
Last night I chatted with an old friend. We hadn’t talked in ages. We’d met years ago, volunteering at a Women of Faith Conference in Texas, just after my life had fallen apart: marriage, family, job, home, father, and every beautiful thing I owned suddenly gone. She had been an encouragement to me. Today she finds Read more…