I’ve been thinking…
When Your New Year Doesn’t Start with a Bang
“I feel like I’m in a pit, and the sides of the walls are all covered in slime. I’m trying to claw my way out, and I just keep sliding back down.” I spoke these words to my husband just yesterday. I usually start the new year off like I’m running a race, and the...
Finding Hope on the Desert Road
I heard a song on the radio last week that caught my attention. It was a song by Casting Crowns, and though it has been out for a couple of years, somehow I’ve missed it until now. The lyrics astonished me as they reverberated through my car speakers, so precisely...
What’s in a Name?
No doubt you have heard this famous line from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (9th grade English, anyone?). Shakespeare uses this line to show that one’s name (and all the baggage it brings) is irrelevant, at least in matters of the heart. But this isn’t always true....
A New Flavor
It’s been over four years since I started my blog, but I was a writer long before that. I have boxes of notebooks and journals filled with words—thoughts, dreams, experiences—poured out of my heart and onto the page. But all the words were mine alone, the ramblings of...
Trust and Obey
The following story was recently published by Christian Writers for Life in the book When We Pray - True Stories of God's Miraculous Intervention. “So what you’re saying is, this is basically the worst place in the world for me to live.” The doctor was not...
His Name is Jack?
I love discovering "life lessons" in the context of nature. Last month, my husband and I spent a few days hiking in Cape Breton Highlands National Park in Nova Scotia. We had driven past Cape Breton Island, where the park is located, several times en route to...
We are all storytellers. We all live in a network of stories. There isn’t a stronger connection between people than storytelling.