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When Disappointment Is All You Can Unwrap This Christmas
I wrote this post last Christmas, but I sense it might be more relevant this year as we've navigated 2020. I've made some edits to the piece - but there's something that I can't alter: the unchanging hope that Christmas brings. May His hope be our anchor this season and always.
Maybe you’re done being merry. ...
Let God do the Deep Cleaning
Sweat drips down my forehead. My glasses slide down my nose. Splotch. A bead of sweat is now on my glasses. Uugh. This is so not fun.
I wipe my face on my really-should-be-trashed t-shirt and go back to sweeping the floor.
I have been at this 43 minutes already. Forty-three minutes of cleaning every nook and ...
The Sanctifying Grace of Inefficiency
Not too long ago, I followed some incredibly resourceful, timesaving ways of managing our home. The system was supremely efficient.
My grocery list was organized by aisle, so I didn’t redundantly traverse the same path twice. My laundry was tackled like one of those washing-machine commercials where the clothes fold themselves into neat towers. My family’s ...
When We Leave Our Nests For A New Normal
I was twenty years old the first time I was all alone in a house for more than ten minutes. I know you’re thinking: Whaaat? Like 2-0? You got to be kidding me, woman.
I don’t have a whole lot to say in my defense. Growing up, on the rare occasions my parents went out without ...
Just One Word
Here’s something you don’t hear very often: I absolutely love New Year resolutions. I probably shouldn’t anymore – I’ve crashed and burned with my eat right, get organised, read the Bible every morning, get off Facebook, listen more, be patient with the kids, haul derriere to the gym resolutions more often than I care to ...
Stepping Out
I was shopping at Target last week when I ran into a 3-year-old I teach at Sunday School. (She was with her mom, people. This isn’t an article on free-range versus helicopter parenting.)
Anyway, the adorable thing looked up at me and said with wonder, “Teacher, I didn’t know you lived here!”
She wasn’t too far off ...
An Unlikely Example
Leaf through the Bible and you'll meet some amazing women of faith. Just think of one familiar Biblical name, Mary, and three examples of virtue, courage and faithfulness come to mind. But it's one of the Old Testament's less-venerated heroines - or possibly anti-heroines - who has been on my mind recently.
Hagar, the Egyptian slave girl, is an unlikely ...
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