This week would have been my mom’s seventy-ninth birthday. It’s been fourteen years since Lewy Body Dementia stole the life from her, and her from us. Lately, I’ve been thinking about my own life, often
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Have you ever felt like your brain was so drained from a lack of stillness that you found yourself struggling to think, let alone speak? My wake-up call came this week, when I found myself
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Rivers. I see them everywhere! There’s no fighting the river! They show up in my writing, in my singing, hiking, even in my dreams. When God really wants to get my attention, He sends a
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I’m walking through a storm, not just strong winds, but a deep shaking under my feet. I’m not good at conflict, so fear and confusion get the best of my thoughts, sounding like a never-ending
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just told my friend that I felt God leading me into a season of rest. With so many things flying at me, my body is tired and needs to slow down. I even told her
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A few weeks ago I entered a yoga class after a several year hiatus. This was not the death by planks class of my foolhardy younger years, but a softer, just-enough-to-feel-good variety. As the instructor
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“Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth” (Psalm 46:10 NIV). I doubt that I’m alone in occasionally feeling like a mouse
Read moreI asked God to teach me patience, so He made me one. A patient, that is. Patience is most frustrating and best learned when things are out of our control. Think about it – when
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