My dear friends, There is a video going around the internet right now, of a man speaking to women about who they are. It is well-intentioned and is meant to speak value into the lives of women, which is so desperately needed, but the content has me upset. I lost sleep over it last night…
I wanted to honeymoon there 22 years ago, but it wasn’t feasible. Now we were finally on our way to Banff. And it was socked in. That’s Montana talk for mountains covered in clouds. Fog touching the windshield. For two hours we drove and tried to enjoy what little scenery we could make out. Matt…
I used to lay on my mom’s bed and try to peak into her closet when she was getting her clothes out for the day, because there were a few little shelves up high where she kept future gifts. She would keep her eyes open while shopping, and if she saw something on sale that looked…
Matt poured my coffee. I said, Um, can you fill it? He said, It is full. I said, No, fuuuulll. So he started pouring, and when only surface tension was holding the liquid in the mug I told him he could stop. He looked at me like I’m weird. I said, It makes me anxious…
I sat down on the plastic chair in front of the table, and the man placed a form in front of me. I couldn’t read it, my eyes swimming with tears. Setting down the pen, I buried face in hands and cried win-the-lottery, can’t-believe-I’m-finally-doing-this, dream-coming true tears. Months ago God put this in front of me, the same months…
Unity makes a beautiful song. Even if outsiders can’t understand our language, they can feel the oneness we have in Christ. Jesus prays… “also for those who will believe in me…that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they be brought to complete…
I almost went into anaphylactic shock standing over my school desk today. Is there an Epi-Pen or a defibrillator or something for a new teacher who has so many papers stacked on her desk she can’t breathe? Someone call 9-1-1! Papers to grade. Papers to hand out. Papers that have been graded and need to…
So far, reading the book of Job is tied with Leviticus for most miserable read. (By the way, I’m now on August 26th of the one-year Bible mom gave me Christmas of 2011. Mmhm.) Job has ridiculous friends, and that makes me squirm, because I’ve been the stupid friend before. Many’s the time I’ve looked at…
Do you know how overwhelming it is to hear the bell ring and then to open wide your classroom door to a wave of teenagers you’ve never met? That was my first day of teaching. Today was glorious, now three weeks into the school year, because I feel like I’m finally starting to build rapport with my…
I wrote this blog post about how I had terrible insomnia the night before chaperoning a high school retreat and how I trusted God was going to be the power to help me rise successful. Yeah. That sentiment lasted, um, five minutes. I posted those words of wisdom and then promptly went upstairs and bit off my husband’s head….
Right now my life looks nothing like what I thought it would be, I said to the Lord. As I spent time in prayer, I kept mulling over my new job as Spanish teacher. A year earlier I thought I would be marketing a book about now. Instead I was writing lesson plans and trying…
Why are we free in Christ but it sure doesn’t feel like it? This 53-minute sermon by Timothy Keller is full of glorious hope and is well worth your time.
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