“Lord, I need grace I don’t have.” I sat on the couch in his office and silently prayed for God to help me to respond kindly. Across from me sat my boss who was a Christian man, and I worked at a Christian school. Over the course of several weeks, he had questioned my capabilities, misrepresented…
Every Tuesday evening for 30 weeks, I spent 3 hours in a classroom discussing family life skills with a group of women and a trained marriage and family counselor. On one memorable evening, our teacher stood at the front and re-defined anger for me: Anger is a false front – a signpost for another underlying…
Tonight at church pastor shared a shorter sermon on the strength found in our diversity as a body of believers. Then, he invited 4 multi-racial friends up on to to stage to share their story and talk about how we can better cross the divide between races and build bridges toward unity. Five stools…
We called it the Faith Course. Every summer, I’d hop on a bus to chaperone another group of girls from our youth group at summer camp. They played big ball volleyball on the sand court and wrestled over a greased watermelon in the lake. Those adventurous girls got bruised, but they never gave up. The…
When the atmosphere is thick with discord and darkness, it’s not easy to breathe. You might just want to stay in bed under the covers. The enemy of our souls schemes constantly in hopes of lulling us into a coma of apathy. He bombards us with a mental soundtrack of despair and doubt. If we…
Photo Credit In 1985, I graduated from high school, packed my bags, and flew the coop. I’d dreamed of this moment for so long. My heart longed for freedom. Yet, just a few short weeks later, I suddenly felt restless. I longed for home. This dissatisfaction with my circumstances was the beginning of a new…