I’m afraid I’m going to be all alone. There, I said it. It sounds stupid, doesn’t it? When I was a child, I was told I’d be all alone someday. As a result, I have been carrying this truth with me the last 30+ years. I thought it was truth, but in reality it was …
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The Servanthood of Marriage
If I could go back and sit down with myself sixteen years ago and speak some truth into that young, naïve bride to be, this is what I would tell her: Hollywood lied. This person is not going to complete you, even if they had you from hello. Our society teaches us how to go …
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Five Quick Thoughts on Revelation
In Revelation, the Apostle John is standing at the door on every level as he writes his “famous last words.” He was not expecting ever to leave his prison island of Patmos. He was the last of the surviving apostles, and in this recorded series of visions, he is being given a preview of last things, a glimpse …
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Dealing With Conflict: Hurtful Words
The other day I got a text from a friend that was pretty sarcastic. Now we all know that texts can be ambiguous. They are condensed, and they can be conveying something different than what we want because spell check can change a word here and there until we wonder what we really were trying …
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Twelve Unshakable Scriptures to Stand On
My husband and I love spending time with our kids at the park. One particular park near our church has a playground with a bridge leading from one end of the play structure to the other. This bridge is designed to wobble, shake, rattle and scare the living daylights out of mothers with young toddlers! …
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Dealing with Unexpected Loss
There are times when an unexpected loss rips through your world and colors every moment of your days. We think that if only we could have gone back and said something or done something differently. If only we could have a few more minutes. The grief tears you apart and threatens to overtake your life …
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