Have you ever seen a cropped picture, thinking you knew what you were looking at and then the full picture came into view to reveal

“Are you waiting on heaven or is heaven waiting on you?” I wrote that line on one our bathroom cabinets several years ago. But after

I’ve been pondering some things lately. Just sitting with them and feeling them out. The last few years have taken a lot from me. A

For many years of my life, I felt like God’s favorite. I felt like I walked in the favor of God. He was my best

I’ve landed on the other side of my voice battle. I still have vocal therapy to do, and I will always have to be intentional

I’m waiting in the silence once again. My last surgery was very difficult and long. My doctor doesn’t want me to talk until I see

The last two months of my life have been way busier than normal. The activity has kept me distracted, but my busyness hits its apex

So, the consensus after consulting three different doctors is that the implant that was surgically placed next to my vocal cord moved; and probably within

We’ve just traveled out of state for a second opinion on my voice. I now have more choices to make. I thought I would have

I’m a slow processer. Always have been. So, I’m not great at anything that needs a quick reaction, but once I finally get something, it

So…the surgery that I prepared for and processed for two years didn’t work. It took several weeks, but I’ve made my peace with it. Now,

I think that somewhere in the course of my necessary processing and shedding of misaligned beliefs that I stopped hoping for the best. I didn’t

Parenting is hard no matter how you do it, but to parent with Jesus first takes everything. There is a difference in raising a child

We, earthbound people, like new days. We like fresh starts. We like the excitement of them and the promise in them. We like to feel

My favorite professor in Bible college once reminded us that sometimes Jesus walked on water and sometimes He took a boat. So profound. Sometimes Jesus

Last Monday found me yet again at Mayo, fourth floor surgery. I had Thyroplasty on my paralyzed vocal cord. This is my seventh procedure in

God’s ways are always good, but sometimes life throws us so many curve balls that our default is to duck or run at everything that

Several Sundays ago in worship I heard an unmistakable voice. It was louder than a whisper, but only I could hear it. The message was

Our church has been mobile for 11 years. We never meant to be a mobile church. It just happened out of necessity. We never meant

My prayer for my children isn’t fame or fortune but that they’d know Jesus. All the wonderful things in this world and all the not

I just had a day that felt like it was a week long with an extended visit to the full rainbow of emotions. For 24

I’ve been circling around the idea of perfection again this week. I turn at the corner but keep doubling back down the same road. I

I took a carload of girls to the beach today. One of them lost their goggles. There one minute and gone the next. We combed

Chris and I just took a visit to the historic city of Savannah. The artist I’ve most and longest admired was in concert there, so

“Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God