Jasmine smells lovely. Every time I step outside in the back yard, I get a whiff of its delicate fragrance…quite possibly my favorite of all time! It’s good to hold onto those little things that bring you joy. I could … Continue reading Stop and Smell the Jasmine
“Everfaith” had become “ShakyFaith.” Church services felt super-sized — as if I walked into the McDonald’s of Religion and ordered a Contemporary Worship Salad with a side of Powerpoint Dressing. Continue reading Discovering A New Lens
Parenting and homeschooling a teenager in the Evangelical Bible belt has not been the easy road I thought it would be. When my daughter was just a toddler, the songs “Father Abraham,” “Deep and Wide,” “the B-I-B-L-E,” and “This Little Light of Mine” reverberated throughout the house. She delighted the people at our church when she spontaneously danced with pure joy in the aisle during worship. No one else was dancing, but that little girl in the purple tutu danced with abandoned glee! There is a reason Jesus told us we needed to have the faith of a child! When … Continue reading Discovering a New Lens
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Until I met my friends the Millers, I was careful to pray for children with cancer, but I did so in an ignorant, far away-hasn’t-happened-to-anyone-I-know sort of way. I’d see the commercials for St. … Continue reading Shining the Light on Childhood Cancer: One Story
I don’t like confrontations. I’ll drive halfway across town (and trust me: Dallas is a s-p-r-e-a-d out town) if it means avoiding conflict. Arguing politics or religion makes me nervous…in fact, one of the reasons I started this blog was to give me a format in which I could share the good news of Christ — without the risk of argument and without a bunch of questions that I don’t know how to answer and that might make me doubt my own faith. Such as… If God is good, why does he allow such evil to be in the world? How can a person literally be … Continue reading I’ll take some science with my faith, please
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