As we trotted down the slushy sidewalk just a week prior, my roommate announced, “We need to go skating this winter!” I eagerly agreed to …
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Coming Home
It would be five years before I saw my son again, but God accomplished a lot of work in that time, and the reunion is …
Read More »Beware of Jealousy
According to the Oxford American Dictionary, jealousy is being “resentfully suspicious of rivalry (like your lover); resentfully envious which is being discontent or ill-will over …
Read More »Tips for Relationships
When a friend of mine asked me how on planet earth (this is no heaven) we can find and nurture healthy relationships, a list flashed …
Read More »Brandon’s Gift of Time
It is hard to fathom that it has been 16 years since we experienced the great loss of our son, Brandon. He died in a …
Read More »Togetherness With My Husband
Yesterday my husband and I learned that a distant friend had unexpectedly died. He was a best friend to my brother and sister-in-law. I felt …
Read More »Only One Sibling
After our son’s family left our home last weekend, my husband and I commented on the aggression and competitiveness observed between the two grandsons. Swimming …
Read More »Answers With the Rain
I’ve known my fair share of heartbreaks. But the hardest one of all was when I had to break up with someone that I deeply …
Read More »Interrupting Rituals
Sometimes it feels like we Christians are intellectual giants and, at the same time, emotional idiots. More than once, I have been inspired by the …
Read More »A Brilliant Idea
If you’ve never heard of Gary Smalley and you’re a married Christian, well, you must live under a rock in a desert in Africa. Gary …
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