2024

Doing new things is scary. It could be a new career. Who you were in your own mind since pre-teen is suddenly upended by a layoff, a calling in a different direction, a budding passion in a different field, life circumstances. Just because. It could be a new relationship. Used to doing the fundamental day […]

2023 Year End Musings

I type this in a small desk at an airport. On my way to speak at a conference that I enjoy speaking at, with a dear friend I love speaking with. I anticipate a lot of changes on the horizon for my husband and I. Some I’m planing for, anticipate, know about. Many others I […]

The Threat of Apathy

I was catching up on some voicenotes from a dear friend. We have a running joke that 4 month replies are fast — especially when compared to our normal 8-12 month delays. I feel known by such people. Around the middle of her messages, she was asking about prayer, specifically about how to have Scripture […]

James 1:2-3

So okay, no sing-songy voice. No pretending to be happy and alright the whole time. But what do we actually do? What does it actually mean to count it all joy?

James 1:1

James, a bondservant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad: Greetings. The opening verse or two of the letters in the New Testament all start about the same: this is me, this is my relation to God, this is who I’m writing to. James is no […]

The Sting of a Suggestion

I’ve been noticing a building pattern. It happens when I talk to my health coach. In his daily feedback, he affirms my wins from the previous day. He tells me it’s great I’ve started back at the gym. He answers a question I had about if A or B was a better path. And then, […]

Now or Not at All

I have a hard time doing things slowly. When I sit down to write for my blog, I want to think of an idea, write it out, find a picture, and publish it within 25 minutes. Each time. And if I can’t, well, I don’t want it at all. It’s not even that that’s the […]

Elusive Peace

For the last two weeks, a colleague and I have been trying to fix an application. We added a new section, a new feature, a new capability to it. It worked when we ran through it on our local computers. But when we published the code for other people to use it, it didn’t work […]

Plowing & Harvest

“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.” Exodus 34:21 The hardest time for me to have daily, quiet, personal time with God, is when I’m busy doing ministry. These past two weekends have held 8 messages at two difference churches […]

The Context of Praise

My mouth is filled with your praise, and with your glory all the day. Psalm 71:8 This verse reminds me of how Psalm 34 opens — I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth. It reminds me of Psalm 103, too — Bless the Lord, O my soul, […]