When Life is Confusing: Look for Laughter
The Greek wedding movie was cute, but the time with girlfriends was better. There is something about going to a silly movie with friends and relaxing and laughing--not stilted, self conscious [Read more...]
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The Sometimes Not so Easy Road to Remembering to be Thankful
I don't feel very thankful some days. In fact, sometimes when my guard is down and I listen to the little whisper, “This is bad, you need to do something, say something, fix something…" I feel a [Read more...]
Coping With “What If’s”: When Your Life Feels Like That Saturday Between His Death and the Resurrection
Red River sunset 2016 In that dimly lit room two thousand years ago, The terror was real. I picture a small, shuttered space, claustrophobic as they huddle together, hiding in fear [Read more...]
When You Are Asked to do More Than You Think You Can Handle
He was minding his own business. But whether he just happened to be in town or had come to see the spectacle, we will never know. Trudging his way in from the country, Simon of Cyrene’s day [Read more...]
When It Comes Time to Realize God is Enough
The shifting sand slows my pace as I veer toward the surfboard stand. The colors beckon, the Dominican sellers flirt and call and cajole. It always makes me smile. The waves whisper my [Read more...]
How to Cope With The Sadness We Hide So Well
Her face drew me, Once beautiful, now lined with years of toil. Her eyes were weary with an unmasked sadness that captivated me. Resignation and hopelessness cloaked her every step. As she [Read more...]
Weathering the Ice Storms of Life: It’s All About the Giving
Oh but the trees… Our beautiful trees. Full of colorful leaves, wondrous to behold, but lethal to a limb when covered with layer upon layer of ice. Those red and yellow leaves we so loved, [Read more...]
One Day at a Time: How to Be Thankful in Our Brokenness
Thankful, Thankful, Thankful I say it over again and again in my head, trying to focus on those words, those blessings. Yet the longer I live, the more pain I see in a fallen world and [Read more...]
A Prayer for Paris: Surviving Cowardly Acts of the Selfish
There are unspeakably selfish acts, The actions of those who think that their cause is sacred above all else and that civilians are just collateral damage, Just warm bodies to shoot cold and [Read more...]
When God Answers Your Prayers and It Doesn’t Look Like You Expected It To
At first I snickered at the thought of such audaciousness. What kind of person would presume to tell God what to do? Then I sobered as I realized the truth in my own life. There it was, In stark [Read more...]