My latest article is up at GCD: It was Christmas time and I realized we’d been living in our home for about a year. Twelve months of learning a new city, a new job, a new church, and new friends. That last part had proven to be more difficult than I’d expected. While we’d hosted […]
Welcome back!
It’s come to my attention that the subscription feature on my site stopped working some time ago. I finally got around to installing a new subscription mechanism, and to cleaning up a few things on my site. (P.S. Sorry to anyone who received one of my testing messages.) If you haven’t subscribed yet, what are […]
Listen for the Birdsong
“Did more birds move in while we were gone last week?” “You hear it too?” I responded to my husband, incredulously. As I’d watered the flower boxes on the balcony earlier, I was struck by the volume of the birdsong. It wasn’t just a few notes barely audible out one window, it was a chorus […]
Bringing My Whole Self to Work
Authenticity If you know me at all, you know I don’t do surface-level chit chat well. I prefer to go deep, to connect with other people based on stuff that really matters. I want to know you and be known by you in such a way that we value and appreciate one another for who […]
Talking Back to the Anxiety Bully
It had been a particularly challenging week. I’d flown across the country to support a loved one and found myself dangling over a gulf of anxiety. The morning of my return finally brought me to my knees, crying out to God for what felt like an ever-elusive peace. I knew he was telling me to […]
It’s all about the preparation
With a pandemic-fueled hunger for truth, this summer I decided to double-down on my scripture reading. So I started a Dwell App* plan that completes the Bible in 90 days. I’d read the Bible-in-a-year before, but an hour a day felt like a challenge. I wasn’t wrong. I spent 67.5 hours immersed in the Old […]