Oh, lovely day
i. Today is Valentine's Day, one of my favorite days of the year, one of the happiest reasons to celebrate life: it's all about love. I am wearing hot pink shoes now, but I think I'll be changing into the ones dipped in glitter, gold and a thousand points of...
Can Buy Me Love
I was behind them in line at the Walmart return counter, Dante's 10th circle if ever there was one. Brothers, maybe twins, I'm guessing knocking on five's door. They were crammed into the back of a shopping cart; one kid would have been too big for it...
What Runs Through Your Mind When You Wake Up At Night?
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable— if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Philippians 4:8 NIV As We Think, So We Do...
When One Word Becomes Your Battle Cry #OneWord #OYTO
? If not, , and if you are already, thank you! Do you believe in signs and wonders? I do...I believe in signs and wonders. Miracles. Divine timing and appointments. Circumstances, if not orchestrated at least permitted, by a great, great God who knows me...
Letter From Birmingham Jail: As Relevant Today As It Was Over 50 Years Ago
Click here to read MLK's . Powerful and jarring.
Culinary Catastrophes (Why They’re Actually Good)
It occurred to me recently how there's value in our mess-ups: they'll often sear memory, and in the best of times they can point us to something magnificent. Mess-ups...mistakes are hard to forget. The more public, the more memorable. On a spiritual...
Our Beautiful Beginning
I want to push you, gently but sure. Not in the way that bruises knees and pride but in the way a mama bird nudges her lovies out of the nest. She knows they’re capable of doing so much more, that they only need a little encouragement. Mama knows they’ll...
Holiday Haikus: Merry Christmas! Edition
I'm traveling over Christmas, a first-of-a-kind for our family. Two and a half years ago, my daughter joined an urban leadership fellowship with CrossPurpose in Denver, Colorado. At the end of her fellowship, she was offered - and accepted - a permanent...
The Gift of a Lifetime
We moved to a new house over the summer. Invariably, that meant we not only had to unpack all the items from the small house we had lived in for the past several years; but also furniture and possessions that had been stored since we sold our (much larger)...