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Reimagine Your Bucket List for 2022
“In 2022, I want my first trip to be either Iceland or Greenland. But now that I checked my bank account, it’s going to be Neitherland.”
Those lines came from an Instagram post I happened to see. It made me chuckle. But, of course, it’s not just our bank accounts that interfere with travel plans. As ...
When Your New Year Goals Begin to Crumble
Last night, I brought cake up to my bed at 10:15 pm because, hey, those leftover Christmas goodies aren’t just going to eat themselves up, are they? Someone had to clean out the fridge. So I volunteered myself. It was in the line of duty.
The night before the unused potato chips from our New Year’s ...
A Christmas Prayer For You
As we gather with friends and family for Christmas, I want to take a moment to say thank you. Thank you for reading the words God lays on my heart and for blessing me with your words of encouragement and prayers for my family.
Christmas this year is going to be especially hard for us as ...
Saying “Yes” so You can Say Your Best “No”
“I don’t know — ask Dad.”
That was my standard response when my husband, Ranjit, and I found ourselves in a quandary.
If I didn’t have a solid answer to Ranjit’s question or found myself confused by what to do in a particular situation, my fall-back response was to turn to his dad for counsel.
In early November, ...
When the Holidays are Hard
Did you ever make a wish list for Santa when you were little?
Growing up in south India in the eighties and early nineties meant I most definitely didn’t mail any letters to the North Pole.
In fact, gifts weren’t really a big feature of our Christmas celebration.
And, no, that wasn’t because I was some saintly kid ...
When You’re Emotionally Exhausted
There may be days when you feel completely wrung out. But you still go through the motions.
You do the laundry, drop the kids off at school, buy groceries, take out the trash. You smile at people who smile at you.
But it almost feels like an out-of-body experience because you’re not fully present.
The last two weeks ...
Is Attractiveness Essential For Marriage?
“Does the woman need to make sure she stays attractive so her husband stays faithful?”
The question was posed to me a few years ago by a woman in her late 20’s.
We were talking about marriage and, in the course of conversation, this popped up.
It surprised me because the question came from a poised Christian woman ...
Memo from God: Enjoy Life!
Our Middle School-aged kids finally started back with in-person school recently. After a year-and-a-half of vegetating at their desks behind computer screens in online school they were desperate to go back to IRL classes (Just showing off my recently acquired ‘with-it’ lingo. FYI, IRL = In Real Life. You can thank me later for that ...
Working Out as Worship???
Back in the day, I would slide a DVD into my laptop and play “30 Day Shred” — a workout video from the well-known TV fitness coach Jillian Michaels.
Jillian promised that 30 days of exercising with her and I would be “shredded.”
And so I huffed and puffed and grunted and groaned my way through jumping ...
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