A free gift for you today: Since it’s garden-planting time, I have posted a free Bible study on my website entitled Digging Up Dirt: Cultivating the Seed of Forgiveness. As you’re pulling weeds outside this week, consider how the weed of unforgiveness chokes the life out of us. I am THE worst at reflecting on past failures…
A few years ago I went to Matt’s 20th high school reunion with him. Would you like to know how excited I was to walk into a room full of a few hundred people whom he knew and I did not? I was really hoping for a stomach bug that would keep me home, but no…
Matt was tilling the garden, and I was mowing. I filled one of the huge outdoor trash sacks with grass and began trying to drag it across the yard to the driveway. Let me get that, said Matt. I kept dragging the sack, thinking, I’m a strong, capable woman. I’ve got this. I heard from…
I am going to be very brave today and speak openly to you about a weighty subject that has been on my heart for a long time now. Because of my role as pastor’s wife, I have been gifted with the stories of many women who have spoken to me in confidence. Over the years,…
My biggest, biggest fear before I got married was that Jesus would come back before our honeymoon. (Keepin’ it real on this blog, ladies.) But Jesus had not come back yet when I married Matthew on June 1st, and we left for our honeymoon in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The weather was cold and rainy, and our hotel room was…
What you need today and what you’re offered for tomorrow –reading this set me to humming a hymn.
We have a Saturday evening church service and wanted to refresh the décor on the stage, so we put together a design team. Our sanctuary seats 600, and the space is extremely large to work with. I heard my friend say that the large space needs to be filled with large design. Tom Matherson, writer for…
What I needed all along was a place where I could bring my sin, but no one pointed the way (or more likely they did but I never saw it.) Most wanted me to feel better about myself. God loves you, they said. Well, yes, but what about all this YUCK inside me? What about the ill-spoken words to a…
I had a long list of chores to do yesterday. Matt requested clean jeans; everybody needed a lunch packed; the fridge was empty, so a grocery list was in the works; and tomatoes awaited planting. Before getting started on all of this, I sat down with my Bible and read about Solomon building the temple for the Lord. “…the…
I woke up the Monday after Mother’s Day, to read that almost 20 people were injured by a shooter in a Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans. Brutality picks up speed. The saying goes, “There’s a place for everything and everything in its place.” But there’s no place in the mind to put the testimony…
Here are 10 things you could force me to do, and I would not fight you: Drink a second cup of coffee. Read a book before I could eat dinner. Listen to my children sing. Organize a desk. Snuggle with Matt under a blanket in front of the fireplace. Fold towels. Spend three hours…
I had a sleepover in my daughter’s dorm room last week, before helping her move out for the semester. I thought it was very brave of me to climb up on that high bunk bed. Jayme left for an evening study session for her last final, and I laid in bed for quite a while listening to…
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