I bowl. I go to Elitch's. I jump on trampolines. I play board games. I wear formal or old-fashioned outfits to stores and parks and lib...

Have you noticed that many processes are interactions? Farming and gardening are examples that involve a lot of work and initiative and do...

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.  And the earth was without form, and void… One of the things I love about how ...

Tonight my arms ache.  It’s faint tonight.  Some days the feeling is stronger.  On other days I couldn’t detect the longing at all.  But f...

I have been pondering the relationship between singleness and widowhood (or widower-hood) for about a year and a half, maybe more.  Seve...

I resigned my job.  This happened over a month ago now.  For the first three weeks or so I decided not to work on discerning God’s will fo...

Why it’s ok to look at engagement rings and date ideas as a single girl… You hear it, if you’re a single woman, that the secret is to ...

I’ve been learning a lot, since June, about spiritual warfare.  God told me to focus on learning about it and practicing it.  The other da...

On Friday night I asked some friends which Bible character they related to most. Mine was Mary sister of Martha.  On Sunday I sat on a por...

I read once that Tolkien wrote with the pessimism of the pagan poets [1].  They uphold honor in despair, dying well, the heroic quest at t...

When I was in junior high, I remember telling a Bible study leader that if a Christian was walking with God, she wouldn’t have to “pray abou...

We are a people of hope, we Christ-followers.  Love is to be what defines us , and Paul wrote that love hopes all things .  In the past few ...

I forget sometimes that it is ok to be quiet, to sit in quiet.  There is a baby softly crying right now, upstairs, and I'm waiting to se...

I happen to think that a great many things are God’s department.  I believe that nothing happens without Him ordaining it.  This isn't t...

All That Was Lost By Michael Card Why are you crying? Who are you looking for? This is a graveyard. Were you expecting more? You feel aban...

There is a movie called Leap Year, rated an edgy PG.  This in-control woman (whose control issues are a response to an out of control child...

God, the One who created everything, and who is mightier than everyone, and who knows the end from the beginning, who is all-righteous and ...

Maybe you've seen it.  One of your friends comes up to you on a summer's day and his face is all red except for a raccoon-like mask ...

My brother called yesterday.  He is a Marine finishing up training in Virginia .  And he’s had a lot of time to think the last few months.  ...

Lamentations is one of the fiercest books of the Bible.  The prophet dares to know that God is good when there is not a speck of hope, when ...