(my daily blog)
Over the years, I’ve loved drawing spiritual parallels to cooking practices (like leaching out tannins, braising meat, no-peek popovers, or gourmet cupcakes), and today, I
In my journal in the morning, I write down my list of “Concerns for the Day” as a way of getting them out of my
I wrote in my journal this morning that I want to remember the “false rests” I learned about this time last year. Back then, I wrote
Writing is a way of letting others overhear your life. But, strangely, the verb overhear means to hear without the speaker’s knowledge or intention. So
In Isaiah 66:13, we read the Lord’s word spoken to those “who tremble at his word.” The Lord says, “As a mother comforts her child,
Today I told the story I teach that both haunts and refreshes me. In Andre Dubus’ short story, The Doctor, we read the tale of
This morning I reread something I need to remember every day. It’s from a September 2012 post that has helped shape the last three years
This morning I notice all the verbs in Psalm 145 that encourage talking. Hallelujah! You know me: I have “high articulation needs.” I love to talk
D. L. Moody said this: “There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are
Today I remember the great words spoken by Shadrach, Meshack, and Abednego when Nebuchadnezzar was about to throw them into the fiery furnace for refusing