Recently I found myself in a familiar story in Scripture.  The story of the Rich Young Ruler in Luke 18.  It is one I know well. A man comes to Jesus asking what he must do to inherit eternal life.  Jesus tells him, “Follow the commandments.”  The man’s response, “Yep, got that down!”  Then Jesus… Read More Threading a Camel Through a Needle’s Eye

He looks up at me and says, “You look pretty Mom.” I chuckle to myself.  I know what I look like.  Hair half curled on one side, half crazy frizz on the other.  A clump of hair sticking straight up on the top of my head in a clip, waiting to be curled.  I’m in… Read More Beauty Defined by The Beholder

I awake to NOISE… kids that get up way too early for my liking.  And though I try to get up even earlier (5:30 a.m. gives me maybe 30 minutes of silence) the state of growing another human right now has made these efforts to awake that early almost impossible.  This morning, even getting up… Read More Rejoicing in ALL Circumstances… Rethinking How I Live into My Not-What-I-Would-Want Mornings

Life has been full, Little One, and so I haven’t paid much attention to you.  It has felt full of disorientation, confusion, angst over many things.  It has me somewhat buried in the land of dwelling on and mulling over things too confusing for me to understand. So as I drive, consumed with anxiety and concerns… Read More Tiny Kicks… Nudges to See the Gifts in Life that are All Around

I have been preparing a Bible Study talk on Romans 16… have you read Romans 16 lately?  It is a list of names, most of which I cannot even pronounce. What do you do with a list of names?!  Okay Lord, you are going to have to surprise me with something to share here! So… Read More What a List of Names Tells You about the Significance of Your Life

These days, I wake up wondering where in the world I am.  No, I don’t suffer from temporary amnesia.  I don’t travel for a living.  I do know my home address.  But I wake up and I don’t recognize this life of mine… it feels so far off where I thought I would be, how I… Read More For When You are Feeling a Bit Lost in Life

He came riding in on a donkey.   Not the most impressive sight when you think about.  It probably looked quite silly. This grown man trying to balance on that donkey, well, a colt of a donkey actually. It is quite laughable really.  I mean look at that face. That right there should have been… Read More Who Is This?

I saw it there as I stood in the check out line at JoAnn’s with one of those adult color books for my daughter as a Christmas gift.  She says she is “too old” for normal kid coloring books these days.  So as I waited to pay for the coloring book, the gold shimmering off… Read More The Risk of Stepping out of Your Comfort Zone… and the Risk if You Don’t