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When Love Is Lowly
Jesus chooses lowly love to the last people I want to love– the deceitful, the arrogant, and the overbearing.
Relationships
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The Greatest Gift of Love
This year we will be celebrating 10 years of marriage. Ten years of ups and downs, growing up together, and growing closer to each other. Ten years of memories, inside jokes, new things, hard things, selling things, moving away, moving home, job changes, arguments, encouragements, master’s degrees, empty rooms, unfulfilled dreams, and more.
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How Failures as Parents Can Point Children to Jesus
We become Pharisees ourselves when we chide our children with all their imperfections, but fail to confess our own.
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Looming Transitions In Life {and a giveaway!}
Even if you never move further than up or down your block, we all live lives of transitions. I love to hear the back-stories on books or movies. This week Looming Transitions: starting and finishing well in cross-cultural service, a labor of love by me, was published.
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Living with an Open Hand
Whether it was the fear of losing a child or the day I found out my husband had a rare cancerous brain tumor, God called me to have an open hand with my life and my agenda.
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How to Get on Track When Spouses Derail
We did what most couples do. We started living parallel lives. We were called to oneness but we instead were living our own separate lives.
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What Do You Say In The Middle Of Your Story?
“I’m going to be talking to myself, you’re going to be talking to yourself. The question is, what are we self-talking about?”
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It’s Time to Drop the Act
While attending a week-long intensive family counseling session as we attempted to navigate our daughter’s recovery from drug abuse, I was introduced to the concept of masks.
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The Disease To Please
There are lots of good yeses, some great yeses, but God has created you for a purpose that’s unique to you—that’s your best yes. My biggest takeaway from this book is understanding that not every yes is my yes.
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Can My Past Help Shape Your Future?
As sisters in Christ, isn’t there power in sharing our stories with one another? Isn’t God glorified when we share our journeys of redemption with those that are still looking for freedom? Yes, boldness and massive amounts of vulnerability are required to share your past struggles with present listeners, but there is grace and freedom that comes with your words.