Please don’t call me busy
Please don’t call me busy. Busy means I don’t have time to talk on the phone. Busy means I can’t come to your house for coffee. Busy means there are more important things in life than you. And that’s simply not true. If I tell you I’m too busy, it means I’ve done a bad
Kindness reroutes a bad day
Have you ever had a MONDAY that lasted all day? I had one a few weeks ago and it wasn’t pretty. I woke up crabby. I took my son to school crabby. I went to Pickleball crabby. Then the crabby turned to sad. I ate cookies sad. I read a book sad. I took a
Maybe you’re not lost
Being lost is such a scary feeling. I remember being lost in the hilly one-way streets of Athens, Ohio a few days after we had moved to town. The panic started to rise in my throat until it reached my eyes and flowed out as tears. I pulled over and called my husband at work.
I need a Year of Jubilee
I need a Year of Jubilee. How about you? What is a Year of Jubilee, you ask? Think of a Mardi Gras celebration that covers the entire nation for an entire year. Now take away the sex, booze, and parades. Add in a whole lot of forgiveness. That’s the Year of Jubilee. In the Old
Getting what we want
I can remember my anger like it was yesterday. It happened 29 years ago, and yet I can still see myself yelling, stomping and slamming a bedroom door. I was a junior in high school and a boy invited me to visit him at his college two hours from our hometown. We weren’t dating. We
If you are still, they will come
When my kids were little, they always wanted to talk to me while I was in the bathroom. In the shower or on the throne, it seemed their most pressing questions came when I was a bit indisposed. These days, I’d live in the bathroom if it meant my kids would voluntarily come talk to
Look for the joy in today
I’ve talked a lot about my mom over the last ten years. The falling apart and the coming together and what God can do to mend fences, and the way he changes my rotten wood attitude before he hammers in that first nail. This weekend, I got to visit my dad. Five years ago, my
