To devote yourself to something is to lean hard into it, give it full focus, make it a priority. We devote ourselves to family as we...

2018 comes with its brand new calendar pages. Most of us haven’t even had time to start filling up the squares. It looks clean, unused,...

This is the season I do not want. Everything in me reviles at setting aside a time to war and fight and blow people into an eternity...

Hate explodes on our TV screens in so many ways. Hate, under the guise of justified wrong, parades its angry eyes, shoots its venomous...

Why is it that when it is time to be silent, I would rather speak; and when it is time to speak, I would rather be silent? I fear it is...

Sometimes I think all I need are words; but what I need first is silence. When I was a young mom, I dreaded the morning rush to get...

When something is broken, hopelessly severed, damaged beyond use; what does it take to mend it? I can remember my mother coming to the...

Life scatters and gathers us. We lose. We search. We find. We take up. We let go. And then the rhythm starts again with each flaming...

How do we know what to keep? Our lives are over-stuffed and crowded even more than our houses. It is too easy to keep what we do not need...

Have you seen the pictures? Harvey and Irma have blown through the southeast with unrestrained fury and destruction. People return to...

God has only one overarching goal as He shares His searching, testing and pointing counsel. He wants to bring us home. Not to an...

Test me and know my anxious thoughts, Psalm 139:24 Tests have a bad rap. We can blame it on school, and they probably did make us think...

After an energy-draining bout with the flu that kept me down the week after Christmas and kept me struggling for more than a week...

Fall has lingered as an extended visitor. Leaves still fleck the trees in mosaics of gold, red, peach, and rust. Even the recent wind...

What do you do when life reorders the core routine so much that you feel lost? What do you do when that big purpose that pushed you...

We are questioning people. We came by this skill naturally. We amused our parents with our first questions. Then, we frustrated them...

I said I wouldn’t ask what-if questions. I didn’t realize that they don’t need an invitation. They slip into my head at the worst...