God is not only a God who speaks and brings about huge miracles by empowering His people to do amazing things. He’s also a God who works behind the scenes knitting together the mundane, invisible acts of His not-so-spectacular followers as they endeavor to seek Him and live faithfully.
I will never forget my first anxiety attack. I had applied to graduate school with naive confidence only to discover right away that I was the youngest, least experienced, and most certainly the dumbest student in the program. One evening I was sitting in a seminar when my body suddenly went into full-on fight-or-flight mode.… Continue reading Wired for Wholeness
I’d venture to guess that even if you place complete trust in your cell phone’s navigation system, when it comes to fulfilling God’s call on your life, you share my desire to see every step along the way.
Whenever I think of sharing my redemption story, the challenge is that my path to Jesus isn’t neatly broken down into tidy segments. It could be better described as a long and messy process of inching two steps forward, one step back towards my Savior. In fact, it was such a circuitous path that I… Continue reading Jesus is not your boyfriend.
Tell me what events you attended last week, and there is a good chance I can tell you what season of life you are in. For example, my twenties were a decade of weddings and baby showers. My thirties were filled with play dates, recitals, VBS, and youth sports events. As kids grew up, my… Continue reading Marriage is a Verb
The View from Here 