What if everyone agreed with me? I’ve been asking myself that question a lot the past few days. Or should I say daydreaming about it, because that’s really what it amounts…
Last week I attended a writers conference in Grand Rapids that–due to no fault of its own–I had been dreading for weeks. The conference itself is fantastic, but I have…
Last month a friend of mine posted this as his Facebook status: “It’s not even the 2016 election yet, and unfriend season is already in full swing. How did we…
I have put off writing this post for awhile, because I was a little embarrassed to share it. It’s one of those lessons that I should have learned in high…
A few months ago, Ike and I added a new parenting milestone to our resumé: we were sick at the same time. Maybe “milestone” isn’t the right word–the experience was…
When I was about 25 years old I spent a summer working as a hospital chaplain. It was a hard job, to say the least. Every day I was confronted…
“Once you label me, you negate me.” – Soren Kierkegaard This week I spent some time with a group of women I didn’t know very well. Some I didn’t know…
During my twenties my parents used to joke that I would always have a crisis when they were on vacation. When I was single, that certainly seemed to be the…
In the last several months, Sovereign Grace Ministries, a network of Reformed churches, has been in the news as the result of a sexual abuse scandal and allegations of a…
Community can be so elusive, can’t it? I didn’t fully understand the rareness of true, heart friends until I moved away from North Carolina 2 years ago. Starting over is…
