Love and the Lost Letter
There is a special group of people who haved faithfully walked with me on my healing journey--whose grace, kindness, and wisdom have stood the test of time. My pastor Scott…
How to make the next decade photo-worthy
Meticulous planning went into our New Year's Eve celebration of 1999-2000. For those too young to remember, this was the infamous Y2K—cue The Twilight Zone theme. Life, as we knew…
My gift in His hands
No matter that it was the best I could do—the gift was cheap and I was ashamed. Still, years later, like the ghost of Christmas past, I hear that dollar…
The little tree in the other room
They didn't fit on the family tree—or did they? Certainly, not one of them would have ever qualified to be Miss Israel. Tamar, the woman who seduced her father-in-law, Rahab,…
How to have the best day ever
It's coming—the family event of the year. There will be variations of uncles with corny jokes, cousins that won't forgive, and, well, let's just say—interesting personalities. Pile on exhaustion, expectations,…
Because Fear Wants to Stop Us
Then Moses said to the LORD, "O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before nor since You have spoken to Your servant; But I am slow of speech and…