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Your will, My Action
‘Blessed is the man who listens to me,Watching daily at my gates,Waiting at the posts of my doors.’ -Proverbs 8:34 God speaks to us continuously, primarily through Scripture and during prayer. He lays things on our hearts and nudges us to follow. We can choose to listen or ignore. This morning, I finally responded to…
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Are you bringing your best?
Excellence. It is a good word. We, who are made in His perfect image, should strive for excellence: to be the best we can be at whatever we do. What does excellence look like in practice? “And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men,” -Colossians 3:23 Is it…
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I am the favorite child
There is no risk of my siblings reading this and developing fresh resentment, so I will share freely: I was my father’s favorite. I could do no wrong in his eyes. He would often say the others should take a page from my book. Perhaps he should not have voiced that opinion so openly, but…
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What happened to PotatoHead?
I am itching to share every detail of what I am witnessing right now, but to protect those involved, I will keep this intentionally vague. Someone I know, let’s call him PotatoHead, is going through an extraordinarily difficult season. From the outside, it looks bleak and heartbreaking: the kind of situation that makes you want…
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The cat got him
I remember pestering my parents to rescue a baby bird that had shown up on our balcony, flopping around helplessly. It was close to bedtime, but I fussed until they tracked down a wire basket with a lid, hung it as high as they could, and tucked him inside. Then I remembered — the bird…
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Good News at the foot of the cross
I should have written about this three days ago, but I had to wait for the entire narrative since it felt too fitting in its entirety. We had an amazing Easter service at my local church. My pastor spoke about the safety found at the foot of the cross, and a question popped into my…
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What happened after that?
I remember one of the first rom-com movies I watched with my mother. In retrospect, it was a sappy movie loosely based on Romeo and Juliet. I was learning about romance and the magic of falling in love. At the end of the movie, the leading pair stand at the edge of a cliff, not…
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In a secular world
I just got back from a wonderful time with old friends — and “wonderful” might be an understatement. It was a blast. But somewhere between the laughter and the catching up, something else became impossible to ignore: we have grown into vastly different people, despite starting from the same place. So what happens when an…
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Pray & Wait
The best gift you can give another person is to pray for them. And the greatest prayer of all is asking God to change their heart from stone to flesh. Having God in our lives is the most fulfilling thing there is — not because of what we receive, though His goodness is abundant, but…
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But, she called me fat!
What do you get when an effortlessly well-behaved child and the church’s resident troublemaker end up in a fight? A front-row seat to one of God’s favorite teaching moments. In this episode, we recount the rather unexpected honor of breaking up a scuffle between two little girls, let’s call them Ginger and Sage. The differences…