The latest from my blog

I just found out that there is a law going into effect on 7/20/16 (not quite a week and a half from now) that Russian Christians are no longer allowed to share their faith anywhere other than state-sanctioned church buildings.  Not even their own home. The next step...

I sometimes, like many (maybe most) others, find myself having to learn the same lessons over and over and over again.  This morning proved that statement true. One of those solid lessons that I perpetually must allow myself to marinate in, is the lesson of receiving...

On the drive to school today, Forest (who is about to graduate high school in a couple weeks) said to me "I just don't understand why some people think of God as an angry judge".  I almost wept.  I would have, except that I was driving and it would've been the giant,...

It seems that very often when I sit down to write here, it's for the purpose of confession, or because I'm working through something in my own life.  Perhaps that's just because our life should be one big, glorious confession that God is good and we are not, but He...

As I reflect on all of the ways that I've spent my life, there is nothing more sacred and significant than my role as a mother.  I am in the final leg of the journey of raising my sons, as my firstborn is finishing up his senior year and preparing to go to college in...

It's confession time.  I'm a slob.  My house is always a mess (a productive mess, but a mess).  As my husband aptly puts it, "Space, you clean like a tornado", meaning I start a million projects, and never quite complete any of them (sigh).  At least it's not because...

I have been enthralled, lately, with the way that Jesus interacted with people during his short time on this earth.  I'm reading steadily through the Gospels (the first 4 books of the New Testament that chronicle His life).  The other morning, I found myself at the...

I recall years ago, hearing someone, very accurately, say "The Discipline of the Lord is sweet, ya'all!". When He convicts us of sin, it is so distinctly different than any human rebuke, and never carries with it any sort of guilt or condemnation.  He touches our...

One of the most retold stories of all must be the story of Israel's exodus out of Egypt.  It's plastered all over Scripture.  Paul regurgitated it countless times to various audiences.  Stephen told it at his own execution.  We can read it in Exodus and Deuteronomy,...

I’m falling in-love all over again with the story of the unnamed woman in Luke 7, who enters the Pharisees’ house with heart intent on one audience… the One able to forgive.  This is a story of 3 distinctly different people: one, a woman known only by her sexual...

I have a friend who often makes me feel as though I'm being tested.  Like she'll avoid me long enough to see if I notice her absence and come after her (obviously, I don't know her motives, this is just how it seems).  Or she'll ask me for help, then reject it... and...

I just spent a phenomenal weekend with some dear sisters in the Lord, many of whom I've never met (even now... there were over a hundred of us!).  We gathered at a local church building and watched the livestreaming of a women's conference that just happened in...