I’ve just had another surgery to inject gel into my paralyzed vocal cord. This will give me another few good months of talking, but it’s also a test to see if the medication I’m taking will control my cough well enough for a permanent surgery to put an implant in the place of my disabled …
How often do we face hard circumstances we wouldn’t have chosen and shake our fist at the air with dejection or defiance? How often do we view hardship as an inconvenience and a setback or even worse a rejection from our maker? But what if the very situations we despise are vehicles for our good …
For the Jesus follower, there is a fellowship found in suffering that cannot be obtained any other way. Suffering has a way of connecting us to the Savior’s heart. Solidifying like cement. Tethering like a root system that reaches down deep and wide. There is a side of God’s nature that we can only know …
There are times in life when you feel stuck; stuck between a rock type obstacle and a stubborn hard place. I am very familiar with the feel. I am there. You’ve probably been there before too. You know the pain of it…the confusion of it…the frustration…the fear. It closes in like the walls of an …
I feel a shifting in my soul. I still don’t know what the future holds for my voice, but the Holy Spirit has been speaking to my heart of new wine skins. I’ve heard His whisperings, saying that’s what He’s been up to. So that I can hold what He would give me. I don’t …
It seems to be human nature to get lost in the pursuit of what we don’t have while missing the blessing of what we do have. We let our minds be in five other places instead of the present. We fail to steward our moments well, because we are so focused on where we aren’t. …
It’s been a year today that I had thoracic surgery to remove a tumor growing on my vagus nerve. One year since I lost my full voice to the nerve damage. I am now in true miracle territory. My doctor hasn’t extended any statistics for rejuvenation beyond a year, and she’s ready for permanent surgery …
A dream is a beautiful and curious thing of wonder. It dances undeterred through minds and into hearts. It brings with it hope and promise. At the very nucleus of a dream are a plan and a purpose. A dream is meant to stir both. It is a promise of a future, but also the …
Trauma is such a heavy stress to bear, and yet all of us carry some version of it. I sometimes wonder if mankind’s ideal emotional capacity was intended to be so large. We were created for Eden where man’s heart wasn’t stretched to its limit, because it didn’t need to be. All was as it …
This time last year, our family was in a very difficult place. Last Thanksgiving, Chris had an episode on the way to my parents’ and slept through most of the day. The meltdown started as we drove down the Buckman. When we arrived at the house, I sent the girls inside and Chris’ dad and …