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Hurry and Make Something Out of Me A Prayer When You Confess: “I Am a Mess” —Psalm 40

All I spy are hot pink toenails on swollen feet, spilling out over glittery sky-high sandals. But stuck beside her, I overhear every syllable of the cringe-worthy conversation.   “Hey babe, your [Read more...]

Why Waiting (Which We Hate) is Not Always a Bad Thing

Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who WAIT FOR THE LORD! Ps 31:23,24 (NLT,NIV) The text screeches from my screen. YOUR FLIGHT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. What in the ever-loving world? [Read more...]

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...]

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...]