Does Christianity Need a Marketing Makeover? Can you identify the companies or products represented by these slogans? “Can You Hear Me Now?” “Just Do It” “The Quicker Picker Upper” Companies usually consider certain criteria when creating a marketing slogan or...
Forty Years in the Wilderness Have you ever felt as if God has you in an extended wilderness experience? You feel stuck in the last place you ever wanted to be. A time of testing that might even feel like God has abandoned you or that you’re under some sort of...
The Moon is Always Round Have you had a difficult day? A tough week? A grueling month? Or perhaps a year that feels more like a decade? Maybe this doesn’t apply to you . . . today. But we’ve all lived long enough to know that if we’re not in the middle of a...
Embrace What God Allows I almost titled this post, “Embrace the Unembraceable.” When I landed on embrace as my “one word” for 2024 last January, I thought I knew what it meant. Embrace new encounters. Say yes to new adventures. Welcome new friendships. And, of...
Please Don’t Say That! Last week another hurricane hit Florida. Yet another powerful storm, this one bringing the added danger of record-breaking tornadoes. We endured Category 1 winds in my hometown, but not the Category 4 and 5 originally forecast. Worse than...
Storms of Life, Trust, and God’s Sovereignty Hurricane Helene roared up the west coast of Florida and left devastation in her wake across several states. Two weeks later, Hurricane Milton blew up in the Gulf, sliced through Florida, and left more devastation...
How Do You Respond to Adversity? There’s something refined about a tea party, isn’t there? Perhaps we enjoy tea parties because they help us push pause in our crazy, schedule-driven lives. We wait for the water to boil, the tea bag to steep, and our stress...
The Megaphone of Pain Pain exploded throughout my knee last week. I’ve been barely hobbling with the help of a walking cane. Treatment has not helped . . . yet. But I have a choice: I can wallow in self-pity or I can learn from this experience. As C.S. Lewis...
Three Steps to Look Up! “Look where you’re going!” My mother’s words echo in my memory. I had my share of scraped knees as a child, often because I did not look where I was going. “Look where you’re going” is good advice. Whether hiking through a forest or...
Overcomer or Overwhelmed? This has not been an easy week. An anniversary of loss I’d rather not remember, yet it’s impossible to forget. A reminder of my husband’s greatest season of victory in the face of what the world would call a season of deepest defeat....
Does Christianity Need a Marketing Makeover? Can you identify the companies or products represented by these...
Forty Years in the Wilderness Have you ever felt as if God has you in an extended wilderness experience? You...
The Moon is Always Round Have you had a difficult day? A tough week? A grueling month? Or perhaps a year that...