When God Calls You to Move
I grew up in the same community and lived in the same home for 18 years. With the exception of summer trips to visit family up north, my life was relatively consistent and familiar. When I left for college, it
One Million Ways to Love
Last weekend I spent time with my favorite teenager. For those of you reading this who don't know, this young lady is not my biological child - I don't have any biological children. She is the niece of one of
The Art of Hosting
It has been exactly two weeks since I hosted one of my favorite big cousins and one of my favorite little cousins :-). Their time with me in my home was their first visit to my little town - I
These Things I Learned in 2019
I can only recall one other year - 2012 - when I had such drastic and dramatic change within 12 months so it should go without saying: 2019 is one for the books. If you’ve been following my posts, you
The Prayer Process
When I was a child, my mom taught me to pray the “Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray to the Lord my soul you keep …” prayer. I imagine that I didn’t learn the “Our Father’s Prayer”
The Gift
I CANNOT believe it is May already! Where has time gone? It seems unreal that I have been abroad for 3 and a half months. So much has happened! Sidebar: I find it both fascinating and frightening that more transformation
How My Friends Taught Me to Be Flaky as F*(! … and I LOVE It!
I opened my first email account when I was a freshman in college and didn’t start texting until nearly a decade later. I grew up in a rural town so no one used RSVPs – you just stopped by, showed
Re-Blog: When A Sanctuary Isn’t Safe: Commentary on the Charleston Church Shooting
Thursday, June 18th marked the 3-year anniversary of my blog! I wanted to write a celebratory post; reflect on the experience of blogging consistently for 3 years; write about how refreshing and renewing this has been. But instead, I was
At the Same D*&! Time
It’s funny how words of wisdom seem to crawl out from out secret spaces as we move through adulthood. I often find myself thinking of things my mom, aunts, close friends and other family members shared with me while growing