I’m guilty. When someone asks me how I’m doing, I often say, “I’m really busy.” But is that good? Sometimes we can get too busy and that results in less than perfect results. In my hurriedness over the past few weeks, I’ve lost a golf club, broken a bottle of nice perfume, and unbeknownst to…
It was thirteen years ago that a beautiful, loving, and effervescent seven-year-old daughter asked her mother to go to church. She had mentioned going to church before, but this time she really wanted to go. Little did I know that what she wanted was going to change all of our lives, especially mine. Passover, Good…
I’m an over-cautious driver. One lesson I learned in Driver’s Ed years ago was to leave at least two car lengths between me and the car ahead. When I see brake lights, I start slowing down. But following at a distance is not always the best practice, especially when it comes to our Christian faith….
I heard it said, those who are called are never uncalled. That statement really struck me because I’ve been in a season of transition these last few years. I went from a hands-on mother and college professor to an author and ministry volunteer. My last child will be entering college this fall, and I have…
Strengths. We all have them; however we get into trouble when we don’t realize where those strengths originated. This week I was reading in Genesis 11 about the Tower of Babel. At one time the whole earth had one language and one speech. That would eliminate the language elective at school! However, this convenience from…