Driven. Workaholic. Adrenaline junkie. Type A. 24/7. Savior of the world (or at least my world). All of these and more. That was me....

The other night, I pulled out a very well-worn book that I keep going back and back to. I have a few of these in my life. These are the...

Perhaps it’s not our job to make God happy. We’ve tried every which way. Obeying our parents (except when we didn’t). Being a good spouse...

There's this bad driver in my life. She's there, steering me down a road that DOES NOT lead me where I really want to go: the space of...

Prayer is weird. It's one of those things that every person has an opinion about. And for some people, they are strong ones. What it is....

Finding the beets upside-down in the vegetable drawer first thing in the morning, their bright red juice settled into the cracks, almost...

That feeling has been rising up within me. The pressure to do better, be better... STRIVE. FIX. MAKE.IT.HAPPEN. It happens to me every...

I always tell myself that I'm going to do it differently. The next time my daughter is upset. I want to just listen. Intently. Not talk....

They say that confession is good for the soul. I'm not sure who "they" is, but when I speak a thing out loud, even if it's scary and...

When I was a young girl, I had the New Year’s resolution every year of reading through the Bible. On January 1, I would read 40 chapters...

I will light my very last candle this morning. The largest one of all. The Christ Candle. The time has come. I’m very glad to do it. Just...

Not sure about you, but the last month of pregnancy was just the worst. Well-meaning people asking, “are you still here?” Babies sitting...

Breathe. Just breathe. Long. Slow. Deep. Breathe. Words said to me over and over again with every single contraction I had as I labored...

I started to feel it a few weeks ago. You probably did too. The fancy Christmas pressure. Make it magical. Keep it simple. Be present....

The past several months have been marked by much suffering. The pain can be overwhelming. Substance abuse by those we love. Every kind of...

What is in this little brown bag? If I showed you, it probably wouldn’t mean anything to you. In fact, you might be like, “Who cares? So...

GIVE PEACE A CHANCE. The mantra sung and chanted and begged for in 1969. 1969. War rages and protests break out all over. Charles Manson...

“Advent is for the ones who know longing.” (Sarah Bessey) “Tis the Season.” (Mom utters with eyes rolling while corralling child hyped up...

I lit a candle this morning. For the first time. Not just any candle. The candle of Hope on this first day, this first Sunday of Advent....

“Are we going to see the wild horses?” my not-yet-college-bound, have-to-be-dragged-everywhere, youngest asked. “You promised.” We were...