“Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.” –Deuteronomy 31:8
It’s easy to read this snippet of a Bible verse and…
Today, I heard something I hadn’t heard in a long time—someone called me crazy. At first I was…
The danger with well-known verses we have heard all our lives is that sometimes we tend to…
“Dawn” is a great word. It is not night. It is not day. Yet, one is transforming into the other. You see both night and day during the dawn. Darkness fades into light of dawn, which slowly…
Predicting the weather in Texas is tricky. My aunt was married on Valentine’s Day a number of years ago. When our family arrived in Dallas…
If you are like me, you have amazing intentions to do great and meaningful things this year. I love new beginnings and starting over. And I’ve actually…
It seems like I’ve been saying a lot lately, “This too shall pass.” (…when my teenage daughter is dealing with a broken heart or middle school drama; as I scurry around…
In his classic book Celebration of Discipline, Richard Foster opens his chapter on prayer saying, “Prayer catapults us onto the frontier of the spiritual life. Of all the Spiritual Disciplines, prayer is the most central, because…
It was a rough day for my teenager. False rumors were flying around the school, and she hung her head in despair. “I don’t understand why they would say these things about me,” she cried, while simultaneously…