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We are in the thick of my favorite quarter. (Anyone else operate on a Q4 mindset? #corporateworklife, am I right?) Q4 is my favorite of the whole year. From October 1 until January 1, I am running on full-steam holiday joy, leaving a pumpkin-spice-scented trail in my wake.
Three of my kids have Q4 birthd...
“Let the whole earth shout triumphantly to the Lord!
Serve the Lord with gladness;
come before him with joyful songs.
Acknowledge that the Lord is God.
He made us, and we are his—
his people, the sheep of his pasture.
Enter his gates with thanksgiving
and his courts with praise.
I have a complicated relationship with fear.
Like many kids, I was afraid of the imagined things that could find me in the dark. As a tween, I became afraid of the man who would stop his lawn care and maintenance every afternoon to glare at me. Every day when I walked by his house on my way home from school in broad daylight, he would do the same thing. I would scurry ...
I’m sharing chips and salsa with a friend on a summer evening. Outside the sky is clear blue, but clouds hang over our conversation. She’s in a difficult season, trying to navigate challenges she’s never faced before.
“I’m a failure,” she says. With these words, I watch her hunch over as if she’s curling into a protective ball. She crosses her arms over her chest, a de...
A few days ago, my husband and I drove down a familiar road in an established area of our city. Trees that have existed for decades upon decades waved over our path, their fall leaves showing off in the late morning sun. Even though the trees had endured storms of every kind, they stood as sentries, witnesses of what had taken place in this part of t...
