Living Where the Sacred and Secular Collide
Today isn’t the big day It’s just an ordinary Wednesday. We’ve got Vacation Bible School tonight. I need to give the dog a bath. And there are errands to be run. I’ll spend my morning doing laundry and running the vacuum. I’ll spend my afternoon in the car, driving then […]
You know that thing when I tell people I love to start things and then get bored and quit? I mentioned this fun little personality quirk in my recent conversation with Angie Elkins if you wonder more about it. Anyway … I had this fleeting thought recently (or maybe it […]
I really meant to write this yesterday. But, summer … Which, I suppose, just proves my point, right? That summertime can wreak havoc on our very best plans and intentions. So how do we navigate the way summer can change our schedules and still manage to have consistent quiet times? […]
I haven’t taught a women’s Bible study in almost a year. With writing the book and teaching the college Sunday school class with Scott, I just haven’t been able to lead a group of women. I’m in a women’s Bible study but I’m not teaching. And it’s weird. And I […]
A few years ago life was hard. Not in the dramatic, life-threatening illness kind of way (we were past that season), but in the nothing is going smoothly sort of way. Church was hard. Marriage was hard. Family was hard. Parenting was hard. During that time, I wasn’t always sure […]
Sometimes we share the darkest parts of our lives so others can have light in their dark places. Light in the dark places. You know what I mean, right? The dark places. I so rarely speak of mine. There are a million reasons why and some of them might even […]
