“We are here for only a moment, visitors and strangers in the land as our ancestors were before us. Our days on earth are like a passing shadow, gone so soon without a trace.” 1 Chron 29:15 NLT We forget this sometimes. We tend to accumulate a lot of stuff as we go along. Stuff we’re convinced […]
It only ever happened once, as far as I know. Me, being responsible for completely exasperating a teacher in high school — which is one of the reasons I’ve never forgotten it. After all, I was one of the good kids — in a class actually full of them. Our honors history teacher was a bombastic man […]
So often I have felt caught—torn between the sinful, imperfect woman I am and the woman I desperately long to be. The woman I sometimes am, or pretend to be. The woman who Jesus sees, the woman I will one day be. And I have felt stuck. Unable to move forward, unable to make any […]
Ah Spring! The time when a woman’s fancy swiftly turns to thoughts of cleaning and decluttering and reorganizing… I remember one such spring, when in a frenzy, I attacked my overflowing filing cabinet, ever so determined to purge its contents ruthlessly. I never got past “G” – for “GOALS” — where I had filed random […]
You can’t read the Gospels without seeing His love and mercy and grace. His compassion for those caught in sin, bowed down with guilt and shame. Jesus was called “a friend of sinners” because He deliberately sought out those who were lost… society’s outcasts, the undesirables, the untouchables. The ragamuffins. He went looking for them and […]
