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May 17

Remember

My first writing gig happened quite accidentally. On the day I typed its words, getting published was the farthest thing from my mind. Instead, I typed broken hearted, with a struggling faith, a husband who had lost his job and 3 kids under the age of 4 hanging like monkeys on my ankles. It’s interesting…how [...]

May 15

Before You Weigh In

In: Blog, truth 29 comments

Dive into spiritual social media and you’ll soon see many things – promotions, inspirations…opinions laced in passionate questions about love, grace, holiness, truth. Some, like these: How can Christians say we love if we don’t let homosexuals be themselves? Are some preachers bullies, chauvinists who promote an old school mentality against women who speak to [...]

May 10

Your Audience is Listening

In: Blog, perspective, Purpose 17 comments

“The size of your audience doesn’t matter. What’s important is that your audience is listening.” ~Randy Pausch I googled someone the other day. He was a popular Christian musician who once sang for audiences of eager fans in large arenas with green rooms full of lavish food. Now he is a former popular Christian musician who [...]

May 03

Give {yourself} Grace

In: Blog, encouragement 18 comments

There is someone reading that needs to read this. Yes, you have a long way to go. But you’ve come a long way, too. Maybe it’s just me that struggles with the guilt over all the things I’m not, all the ways I’ve failed, all the things I wished I’d done or said or hadn’t. [...]

Apr 30

God May Tell You No

In: Blog, God, growth 17 comments

“All my desires have not been gratified, but thy love denied them to me when fulfillment of my wishes would have proved my ruin or injury.” ~Valley of Vision Even as I write this post, I don’t like it. There is a 2-year old rebel inside of me that, at the very thought…wants to ball [...]

Apr 27

Labels {I don’t like them}

In: Blog, personal 47 comments

I have decided to forgive Canada’s leading spiritual talk show host, Drew Marshall, for what he called me last week, in our radio interview. A God blogger. It is not that the title is offensive. I have, in fact, been called much worse. =) It is also not that the title is not true. I [...]

Apr 23

To Find Courage

In: Blog, courage 15 comments

Give me a person breathing and I’ll tell you they need more courage. Because, you see, this life…it’s not easy. What may a doable today might be an insurmountable tomorrow, and we will need more guts than we currently have to face it. And when those requiring more guts moments occur, sometimes even tough people [...]

Apr 18

The Life I Never Want to Live

In: Blog, Purpose 16 comments

The most miserable person in the world is not the one with the least amount of money or the one who knows no companion to walk with them through life…but the one who lives for nothing. It is by far the coldest, quietest place, where passions don’t exist and hopes have been deflated and the [...]

Apr 12

Use What You Cannot Change

In: Blog, growth, perspective 30 comments

It is a fact, that my fingers are short and chubby. They have always looked this way, apparently, since that’s what old pictures say. Other things I cannot change are less genetic but feel just as permanent. In some ways, my reaction to them is more visceral because they are things that I know God [...]

Apr 10

So We Really Want Success?

In: Blog, perspective 27 comments

I’ll be honest: I’m tired of the airbrushed picture of important people. The picture – not a literal one in a magazine – but the one coloring our minds about human viability. The one where worth is deemed by someone who isn’t God. We won’t admit it, but we all [at some point] do it. [...]

Apr 05

Some Things Have Nothing to Do With Jesus

In: Blog, truth 27 comments

I’ll never forget the day the Christian man sat in my living room and told me he had heard from God. With all the sarcasm I could muster, I told him to say it again to my 9-month pregnant belly. It was not my finest moment, this one…but my mind could not reconcile the God [...]

Apr 02

For When its Hard to Trust

In: Blog, trust 16 comments

It is true…that little ears that hear too much, little eyes that see more than they should…often grow into hard hearts that don’t believe anything they see or hear. Life doesn’t do anything to stop this, most of the time. It simply heaps more support material onto the heart pile through I love you words [...]

Mar 30

Are We Feeding What is Killing Us?

In: Blog, truth, wholeness 31 comments

Many of us…everyday…wreck our life by the things we choose. I hear from you in emails, and you tell me this is so. You say that Facebook has ruined your marriage…a friendship…your self worth. You say your addiction to shiny Jesus things keeps you suffocating in a plastic bubble of pretense. You tell me you [...]

Mar 28

To Really Live

In: Blog, life, Purpose

More than ever I’m reminded that life is a great gift to be lived. It is not an existence, whereby breath is present but the soul expires. That is for we who do not understand the great gift and carelessly discard it on the $.10 garage sale table of life. {God, don’t let that be me.} [...]

Mar 22

That Thing Called Control

In: Blog, growth, truth 45 comments

I had a different post written for today. But for now, it will stay unpublished. Because instead, I feel a responsibility of a different kind sitting like an anvil on my chest…to go with my gut…to write, not as a teacher with a lesson in hand to share but as a student, with a heart [...]

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