Scripture tells us of a desperate woman. Like so many of us who have tried doctors, therapies, supplements, diets, and tests, this woman was weary. No one could help her. And her issue wasn’t just a physical one. “And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and who…
I’m putting the final touches on our study leading up to Easter—From Hurting to Hopeful: The Path of Peter. We’ll eat with him at the Passover meal. We’ll climb the Mount of Olives. We’ll turn our heads in shame when we hear the rooster crow for the third time. We’ll feel all the hurt…
Even from a very young age, my son David (now 11) has been dramatic, empathetic, and entertaining. “He’d make a great preacher, like his dad!” people would tell us after meeting him or seeing him perform on stage in a play without any stage fright. (He doesn’t even get the concept of stage fright—”It’s just…
Nothing brings hope to the hurting like the Easter story. Every year when it comes around, I feel myself exhale. I remember I’m not the only one walking a hard road. I think about the characters we meet and how their life experiences brought them to the place they were at the end of Jesus’s…
I wasn’t having a good morning yesterday. I had gotten the boys off to school and needed to get to work, but I just felt so blah. So I gave myself ten minutes for self-care. But what could I do in ten minutes? I spent about five minutes deciding, and then did #2 on…
We’re half way through winter and it’s time to share “what saving my life right now” with Modern Mrs. Darcy (It’s not quite as dramatic as it sounds; you can read where she gets the phrase in her post). Antibiotics and probiotics. January is always a tough health month and this year I’ve had a sinus…
