How to find joy in the land of unanswered prayer
The Lord taught me how to sigh in pain, how to weep in gladness, and how to trust during days of hope deferred.
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We are all in the process of becoming: how we can learn to accept ourselves
Over the course of my life, I have learned to accept that I am still in process.
House Flipping + You + Our New Fair Trade Store = World Fixer Uppers
Wherever there is a place of Grace — we all find more of Home.
If You’ve Been Asking for God to Give You a Message: Here it is
His Word made the heavens — and His Word remakes our hearts.
Mass Shootings: What if We Did This, Before The Music Dies…
The notes may have kept bravely playing after Vegas, but this week in Thousand Oaks, it felt like the music died. They were all line dancing, linked and toe tapping,…
How discovering and using your voice can change just about everything
I’m offering thanksgiving to God that He hears my voice and knows my struggle and looks on me with compassion.
When We All Need A Song of Hope
We are not failures, not un-beautiful, not unworthy after all.
When things are not as they should be yet still good
What if we could learn to “see through” to the deeper meaning of things and discover the beauty and love of God?
The Invitation to Notice: How my son with Down syndrome is teaching me the richness of a small, unhurried life
I judged my parenting based on whether my children were successful, polite, and kind. I judged my own value based on those standards as well.
When you need to know how to befriend parts of your soul you’ve long denied
Our usual tendency is to avoid pain. But when you avoid your pain, you avoid opportunities for renewal and growth too.
How to Make Peace with Daily Bread
Sometimes the bread I’m sent just isn’t the bread I want.
Traveling a Winding Road from our Suburbs to our Sahara: Going Global as an Ordinary Person
It starts with us—ordinary, regular us—taking one step, then two, and then a hundred small steps in an intentional direction.
when life gets a bit dark, try this secret
You can’t make a difference until you listen to the world differently than everyone else does.
What We Can Offer to a World Crying Out (and it’s not what you think)
In the span of God’s wide and rowdy family, we all belong to one another and there is no such thing as other people’s children.
Adoption, Conversations, Eucharistic Living, Faith, Family, humility, Refiner's Fire, Seeing God, The Broken Way, The Way of Abundance, Unity
Cure for Lust of a Good Image: When Your Family Isn’t Really Who You Think
We are family not because we bear the same last name — but because we bear the image of the same God.
