The other night, I left my books outside in the rain. Lying in bed, I could hear the thunder and see the lightning. I was in that twilight kind of sleep, where the cares of the world don't seem quite as big. Even the possibility that my books and my planner were being pelted into pulp wasn't enough …
It’s Always Something New With God
Hard to believe it's been a year since Alia Joy snapped this photo on her phone at the end of JumpingTandem: The Retreat. This was the actual, very last moment of the retreat, and this was the very last load of amazing women being driven to the airport, and to home. These women, along with all the …
Pentecost + Abercrombie & Fitch
It's been more than a decade since the first trip we took to Chicago with our children. We drove a rented Chevy Blazer from Connecticut to the Windy City for a minister's conference. H had been invited to this conference by a ministry colleague, and we decided to make it a family summer vacation. We …
Tearing Down Walls
When I was two years old, my family moved to a new town in New Jersey. My parents opened up the Yellow Pages in search of a church to attend and decided on the Baptist church. I imagine they dressed me in my Sunday best, including patent-leather shoes and white tights or ankle socks, backed the car …
Darkness To Light
I find myself on the other side of the worst six years of my life. I'm not exaggerating, and I hope you'll take my word for it, because there aren't enough blog posts that will help it all make sense to you. In the middle of those six years, someone asked me how in the world I was surviving it all. …
Redeemed
The last time I'd been to Green Lake was forty years ago! What in the world? How did that happen? Naturally, nothing was as I remembered. Some things were older, some were new, some things had been moved, and other things (the outdoor pool I wandered around looking for until someone finally told me …