Peace

5 Lessons I Learned from the Pandemic and 5 Choices We Can Now Make

Covered in goosebumps, I determine to shun the lure of my toasty car--me who despises cold. But a foggy beach day will not deter me from my walk along the waves. I gasp with the first icy lick of the [Read more...]

Three Ways to Battle the Lure of Wanting “More” —Psalm 4

He staggers under the weight as he zig-zags between the lanes. A sixteen-pound bowling ball rides heavy in the frail arms of a child. Already in his lane sits the balls selected in appropriate [Read more...]

How to Rise From the Ashes of 2020 And Change Your Life in 2021—Psalm 56,100

Well it’s over and done.  Finisimo We finished that train-wreck of 2020 and all the carnage that left us feeling vulnerable like never before—sliced as thin as tissue paper. We wade out of [Read more...]

Why Our New Year’s Resolutions May Look Different This Year-Psalm 75:3

Yard games cease as five-year-old Jett looks up and asks, “Who’s coming to my house?” We wonder the same…Lumbering up our long drive is a truck. A U-Haul truck. What in the world? But as the guy jumps [Read more...]

The Key to Coping When Christmas 2020 is Anything But a Hallmark Movie—Psalm 41:1-3

Mired in a holiday traffic snarl, I drum on my steering wheel, inching forward slow as a slug on a sidewalk. As I wait and scan the never-noticed-before landscape, I spy a fleeting movement in the [Read more...]

Five Ways to Find Joy When You Feel Like Crying: Psalm 100

A niece, her husband, my parents, and 3 dogs. That’s it. The whole of the Thanksgiving gathering. So if you count the fur babies, and who wouldn’t, we have 8. Missing my kids, my sister, the [Read more...]

Sneak peek book excerpt–My Dirty Little Secret

(Our new book will land on Amazon in a couple of weeks so I thought I'd share one of the devotionals:) The drive-thru barista knows my dirty little secret. Tinted windows befriend me because [Read more...]