365 days. My tunnel journey began one year ago last week. I had to make my way through the dark. Unfortunately, there was no way around it—one slow step at a time. Today, as I continue to plod on, I realize this...
The Practice of Gratitude Part 6 Have you unintentionally crossed paths with someone who has hurt you? How did you respond? With thankfulness? Neither did I. Recently, this happened to me. It threw me, and I ran into others who were a party to...
The Practice of Gratitude Part 5 Last week, after a dire diagnosis, my dad underwent Open Heart Surgery. And each day brings a teeter-totter of challenges and emotions. Yet, the Lord's comforting hand holds my sister Jeni and me. We feel the...
The Practice of Gratitude Part 4 Tramping at dusk through a field of weeds with my 12-year-old, Micah, my eye was on the prize: a porta-potty. As we got closer, I saw the door bolted shut. Nooooooo! My bladder was ready...
The Practice of Gratitude Part 2 A society dwells in a dump, a cavity of stink where the city throws trash in Tijuana, Mexico. As a college student, I spent a day volunteering there. We administered showers to the kids. We...
The Practice of Gratitude: Part 1 During my fourth pregnancy, we purchased a house that needed extensive work. As moving day approached, the doctor placed me on partial bed rest. It was a stressful time: making moving preparations, finishing our home...
Unwell. Unengaged. Uninterested. It was as if I stood in a hallway before an unopened door, knowing health and healing lay on the other side. Ten years ago, I pleaded with God to heal my malaise. I desperately needed and wanted...
Can we talk about books? I enjoyed this last year (see: http://wp.me/p4RztF-ve). Let's do it again! Most of the following books did not come out in 2016, and there is no particular order of favorites. I use the Goodreads app. On the app is...
Lamb of God The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! John 1:29 -A Christian term for Jesus first used in the Gospel of...