Through His Strength, For His Glory
Loneliness is an epidemic. Every woman I know craves connection. We want to know each other and be known by each other. Passing each other in the hallway and exchanging small talk is no longer satisfying the need for deep relationship. We want more. Choosing to connect with others is scary. To know someone and be known by them authenticity… Read More
Today I am overcome with emotion, almost undone. Joy, disappointment, excitement, sadness, pride, and love all made an appearance today. Some of them made multiple appearances or for extended periods of time. I watched as our son, a senior, ran his final cross country race. He ran well and I am so proud of him. But knowing it is the… Read More
The following prayer is not one that I am praying for me, at least not right now. It is instead, an honest prayer from the perspective of those who are knee deep in the struggle. God never says that our words in prayer had to be big or pretty or flowery. He does tell us to come to Him and… Read More
Hanging in the far end of the library where I work is a unicorn made of plastic wrap and packing tape. Surrounding it are three giant flowers made of butcher paper. Why? Because otherwise it is a huge, ugly, blank spaces. When the school year started, I asked the art teacher if she and her students could decorate that space…. Read More
Revise is today’s prompt. It had me stumped for some time. As a teacher, revise means to observe and then change mistakes. While I do plenty of revising when I write, I couldn’t find a way to relate it to finding hope in the hard. I decided to look up revise in a thesaurus. The synonym that stood out to… Read More