Are You Hospitable? An Open Letter From a Nomad
What happens when you are asked to leave friends and family and move to the other side of the world? I am excited to share a guest post from my dear friend Jamie Boiles who [Read more...]
Old Habits Die Hard: Confessions of a Spasmodic Pray-er
We lived bold as the young and invincible do. Thinking nothing of driving home to Texas late at night, we snaked dark and lonely as the scant houses blurred past. Winding through the ebony [Read more...]
Has God Forgotten Us? 4 Scriptures of Comfort As We Mourn Our Darkening World
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” Martin Luther King Jr. I sit in darkness to write. The Preacher thinks it strange, [Read more...]
How To Tap Into the Transformative Power of Love: Living The Jesus Creed
Nervous anticipation whistled through the crowd. “Would he talk over our heads? Would we be engaged or flat bored stiff?” As it turned out, we hung on the every word of renowned scholar, Dr. Scot [Read more...]
Five Keys to Remember When You Are Under Attack
I was in the zone. Visions of possibilities danced in my head as I strode down the breezeway to view her new bedspread. Maybe a linen upholstered headboard and lovely floral draperies to flank the [Read more...]
3 Bold Scriptures to Help Sift Through the Whys?? of Life
My son lives in Malibu. I know, tough right? I sent him to college in California knowing in my mother’s heart I’d never get him back. But no matter how hard I hold on to what I know, life marches [Read more...]
How My Chaotic Mess of a Life is Like a Furniture Store in Dire Need of Staging
They cringe and duck when they see me coming. Cue ominous tones… “Oh no, it’s her again.” One asserts bold, “It can’t be time again, we just did this.” And if they spy me before I zero in on [Read more...]
Why Hurricane Harvey May Force You to Relook at Your Life: When Need Overshadows Want
Devastation everywhere, like a giant bathtub filled to overflowing with dirty water, rushing down a drain to sodden destruction. The torrential rains were no respecter of persons, flooding [Read more...]
Solar Eclipse: Three Truths to Remember When Life in a Dark World Overwhelms You
We looked like a bunch of goofies trading paper kiddie glasses around the semi-circle. Standing on the packed red earth at a massive new construction site, we gathered curious. Two designers, two [Read more...]
This Means War: Choose to Refuse (To be a Hater)
Hate Spills Venomous javelins Like a volcano of destruction, decimating anything in it’s deliberate path. Spewed to elevate belligerent divisives And decimate differents. Tainting rancid our [Read more...]