The Benefit of Daily Conversation with Friends When was the last time you spoke with a friend? A recent study published earlier this year concluded that at least one conversation with a friend every day leads to an increased sense of well-being and happiness....
5 Steps to Reject Rejection Rejection is ugly. It’s also an equal opportunity emotion. It latches on to grade-school children and haunts CEOs. It incapacitates actors and hinders artists and authors. And in today’s cancel culture, no one is immune to its...
Love, Care, Share In a world where love, care, and sharing seem to be in short supply, a friend’s prayer request brought deep conviction Her request? “Pray that I 'love deeply, care openly, share boldly.'” Wow . . . and ouch. This prayer request of hers has...
Keeping Unity as We Celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. As Christians, we don’t make unity, we keep unity. Because of Christ, Christians from every tribe, tongue, and nation are already unified by the Holy Spirit. But we don’t always behave that way, do we? I...
Summer Memories: Love’s Journey This week marked a sad anniversary for me, but also reminds me of precious memories. Allow me to share a tale of three summers celebrating love’s journey . . . The Beginning of Summer Love I pretended to straighten the Frisbee...
A New Perspective Vision problems can be scary. One friend’s husband may be facing a diagnosis of macular degeneration. Another friend had cataract surgery. Yet another friend’s son experienced scratched corneas in both eyes. Although his eyes are now healed,...
Paper Cuts, Band-aids, & People It was just a paper cut. And boy, did it hurt. Not a huge problem, though. Compared to other injuries I’ve suffered over the years, on a scale of one to ten, this didn’t even make it onto the scale. I covered the cut with...
Perception of Christianity in One Word This is the time of year when “one-word” posts begin appearing. You may be familiar with them—you may even select one word for yourself as a focus for the new year. It’s something I began doing a few years ago. But this...
Grace Givers I’ve been thinking lately about stewardship. That’s not a word we hear very often anymore. It’s one of those words that seems to have fallen out of favor. Most people haven’t noticed. But maybe we should notice. A steward is someone who has the...
Colorblind sin Sin is ugly. Horrific. Heartbreaking. And colorblind. It’s not white. It’s not black. The murder of George Floyd by an abusive authority figure is sin. Ugly, gruesome sin. The perpetrator—as well as those who stood by and watched—must be charged,...
The Benefit of Daily Conversation with Friends When was the last time you spoke with a friend? A recent study...
5 Steps to Reject Rejection Rejection is ugly. It’s also an equal opportunity emotion. It latches on to...
Love, Care, Share In a world where love, care, and sharing seem to be in short supply, a friend’s prayer...
