The temperature was 90 degrees outside, but I spent all day under a blanket, with chills and body aches. Worse than a summer flu, though, was summer anxiety. I found myself feverish of body and mind, worrying about what this next year will look like. I prayed about this all day, so wishing God would show up…
I was gone this past Monday, and I guess my husband stepped in to make my daughter’s lunch for work, just ‘cause. He cut her an apple, but he informed her he was going to use the “daddy cut”, which means slicing the apple in half and then cutting a wedge to remove the core….
Someone may have to shampoo my hair for me today, because I spent a long time bent over in the garden yesterday, weeding rows of potatoes and spinach. My arms and shoulders are sore. Gardening makes Tim Keller’s words, in Counterfeit Gods, more meaningful to me today: When you “pull your emotions up by the roots,”…
Yesterday I was pathetically unmotivated to do anything in my house, but it was a mess. So I prayed, Lord, will you help me get up the energy to run the vacuum in the bedroom? He did help. (I not only vacuumed but dusted the whole bedroom, loaded the dishwasher, did two loads of laundry…
This is what the king has: Almost 600,000 brave fighting men equipped with shields, spears, and bows. (See 2 Chronicles 14:8-15 NIV for the whole story.) This is what he prays: Lord, there is no one like you to help the powerless against the mighty. Help us. We rely on you. In your name we have…
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…
What you need today and what you’re offered for tomorrow –reading this set me to humming a hymn.
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…
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 I posted a blog entitled Is Self-Pity a Sin? Several hours after publishing that blog I opened my email to see a short note from my employer of 11 years. She regretted to inform me that as of the following Friday they would have no more work for me. My first reaction was pain….
The favorite Tazo tea in our cupboard is “calm”. I guess if you steep the teabag long enough it soothes your very soul? I was just reading about John and Charles Wesley who played huge roles in the first American Great Spiritual Awakening. They were traveling from Europe to America when a huge storm came…
It’s 4:27 a.m., and I’m wide awake. Ridiculous. My brain yawns and stretches before I do. It has a cup of coffee –black. Then when it’s wide awake, with all the worries and to-do lists spread out and ready to go, it wakes up my body. So at 4:27 I wake up with a…
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