Alone and lonely, driving aimlessly down roads that were not yet home. It was not long after that day at eighteen, when I’d hugged my parents goodbye and braved the new horizon of on-my-own. All the years of countless one-on-one hours across little tables from Dad, prepared me now for this. Now it was time …

It’s not what I imagined, on the others side of winter’s cold, not how I envisioned that growing in God would look. He smiles lovingly, as though to say: It never is. But I am always good. It seems the nearer I get to that heaving, blazing heart of God, the less I know, the …

Sometimes you hang in midair terrified, feeling your frailty as though freefalling, unsure if there will be someone to catch you below. Life sneaks up on all of us with circumstances that leave us scared stiff, or at the very least, overwhelmed. Pressures swell to deafening clamoring with all the stresses of life – bills …

The thunder crashed in the early morning, and I shuddered at the sound, so near. But I had heard the rumblings first from the distance, and that’s when the tears welled, His presence washing. The night before had left the heart raw – much of that hurt rising from my own disappointment in myself and …

Tears streamed this morning as I found in my inbox one of those notes that have marked me from childhood till now – a note from my Dad. He wrote in essence to say, “You’re doing it! Don’t give up! Keep coming! It’s real and it counts and though there are hard points, you’re running the race of …

When I caught a vision to love the Lord with all my heart, soul, mind and strength, my young heart was brave and my eyes were clear of the fog that can settle in without warning with the years. It was with bold proclamations – that I would love Him fully, without offense, till the …