I’m always worried that God will make me do stuff I hate. Like when I used to go to my grandma’s house and she kept trying to get me to eat tomatoes. One time she even attempted to win me over by sprinkling tomato slices with sugar, but I still hated them! My preacher husband has been…
So I’m trying to read the Bible through, and I’m never going to make it. Partly because a few days ago I read something that made me raise my hand and ask, What about me, Lord? For the next two days I picked up the Bible and started in that same place to read it again….
My daughter hates writing papers. She expresses herself well, but every sentence she writes comes slowly and with great labor. So she was thrilled when her literature professor in college declared the final would be an eight-page paper they could work on for two weeks and email to him when the final was due. This…
Dear friends, If you’ve been reading my blog post these past three weeks, you know I have gone down to the bottom emotionally and then up again. You’ve probably thought, This girl needs counseling. Well, I sleep with a licensed professional counselor every night, and that hasn’t seemed to help. Anyhoo… Thank you for sticking…
Wednesday was time to practice. For days God had been hurling information at me about my unhealthy need to get approval from people, and I was taking notes as fast as I could. Then it was 4:00 on Wednesday afternoon, two and a half hours before I would teach a room full of about 50…
The following is going to be very academic and possibly boring, but I am on a quest to discover what in the world God wants me to do with this desire for approval that seems to cripple me at every turn. The following is me reasoning my way through the Scriptures… Fact #1 I am not permitted…
I sat on the couch yesterday morning, with my Bible in one hand and a hot cup of coffee in the other. (Always these two things go together.) And I told God of this black hole I have inside of me that pulls for approval. I feel like I should just walk around with a…
Maybe this is what happens when you’re a year and a half into blogging every day, but lately I’ve been feeling like every sentence I publish is pathetic. Plagued with self-doubt, I’ve been laboring to be brave enough to write what’s on my heart and allow you to see it. But last night I had…
My momma says it’s like the weeks after Christmas, when all the hoopla is over and you feel the letdown. For two weeks I have had this feeling, along with trouble getting out of bed and working up the fortitude to get dressed and keep moving. When we feel low, the temptation is to curl up…
I get his phone call and can tell I’m on speaker phone. Um, I think I’m lost. Only a few weeks into having a driver’s license, this is a big adventure to get himself south of town for district music festival. We talked through the directions before he left for school in the morning, but he made…
My book proposal is on my agent’s desk right now. A few days ago she said she was looking at it and would get back to me soon. And so goes this conversation with my husband: ME: I haven’t heard back from my agent yet. MATT: What do you think is happening? ME: She hates…
Recently unemployed, I have had anxious thoughts and prayers about whether to pursue work or not. (It’s incredible the social pressure there is to get a job.) And why should I not work? My kids are grown, and I could easily go get a job as a substitute teacher this very day. But I was listening to a…
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