What Baby Wesley Didn’t Know
Neither newborn baby Wesley nor his parents had any idea of the profundity of their unannounced arrival at our front door at precisely 5:00 pm last Saturday. The loosely-wrapped bundle…
Building a relationship with God and living life based on the dynamics revealed through that relationship.
Thoughts on Diversity in the Body of Christ
Part of my husband's story involves his exposure to diversity in general and then to diversity in the Body of Christ:
How God Heals the Pain of Miscarriage
March 17, 2007. I'll never forget it. Kaki was a year and a half old and the pregnancy test was positive. We rejoiced like ten-year-olds at the circus! Later that day…
God Can Use Anything to Put You On Someone Else’s Heart
It might just be your name . . . When I arrived on campus for my first semester of Bible college, a wild car accident had left me with a…
How I Learned the Necessity of Self-Care
I sped down 38th Street on my way to meet one of three or four girls I mentored. My college student staple--a pizza pretzel in a white paper bag, sat…
Dear God, Please Forgive Me
NO WAY was I going to be a foreign missionary as a single woman!!! I didn't want to end up a strange, cat-hoarding old lady with a bun on top…
At What Point Does Your Gratefulness Start to Look Unseemly?
I stood still and stared at this sculpted masterpiece in New York City’s Battery Park this week. Something about it made me want to cry and something about it made…
Learning to Live in Your Epilogue
When God moves, He moves. And I'm so very grateful for that--a little stuck, perhaps, but grateful just the same.Every woman in Scripture I've ever spoken about eventually comes to…
How Epilogues Keep You in the Game When You Feel Like Giving Up
When I was seven years old, I heard the word epilogue for the very first time. I remember it so clearly because we were all at my great-grandparents’ house where…
Sometimes You Just Mess Up
I was so proud of myself that I straightened my posture until I was a full six inches taller than normal. I was on my first Amazon River trip to…
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