Becoming a woman of bold faith is not about perfectly checked church attendance, how much you volunteer, having the best snacks for life groups or having all the answers in Bible study. A bold woman of faith has real, bold, Jesus-glorifying, heart-wrenching, deep-in-the-trenches and fight for God’s truths in the midst of the lies, kind of belief.
4:02 a.m. Something interrupts my sleep in the middle of this twilight – predawn moment. The sound gets louder as I stumble downstairs and the on button to the coffee pot knowing I’ll need more than my usual 10 cup daily limit. Annoyed and barefoot I step out to the back patio with my journal. There my…
I think I suffered friendship PTSD this past weekend. At least that’s what a friend Lisa Jo Baker calls it. She recently wrote a book “Never Unfriended,” and has spent thousands of hours being held hostage to the worry of friendships. If you’ve never experienced gut punches from careless comments and words, then you didn’t…
Nothing says risky like blindly putting a finger on a map and then moving there. That’s what my husband and I did in 1999. We packed up our tiny apartment and daughter and set out for new adventures in Nebraska. Over the years, we bought a home, lost it, bought a new one, finished…
Everybody has a home team: the friends you call when you lock yourself out of your house once again and ask for the copy of keys you’ve given them or the person you talk to when something terrible happens. It’s these people who know what’s wrong with you and love you anyway. These are the…
Around here, we like things a bit spicy if not caliente! Need proof? Here is my four-year-old daughter, Tori-Grace dumping hot sauce on her plate to eat her Asparagus and Brussels Sprouts. This is why no one in my family bats an eye over my breakfast of salsa and coffee. It’s the breakfast of the champions. If you’re looking for something…