Live With Flair

I’ve always been fascinated and inspired by the account in Joshua 4 when Joshua tells the twelve Israelites–one from each tribe–to take a stone from

I once calculated that I’ll have made over 7,000 dinners by the time the first one leaves for college.  Dinner is a big deal around

My daughter bikes around the neighborhood while I walk far behind. I’m looking for new bird nests. Together, we’ve found old ones from last year

My eyes land on Daniel 5:23 where Daniel describes the Lord as the “God who holds in his hand your life and all your ways.”

Sometimes I forget to ask God for hope. I can’t produce hope on my own. It’s supernatural. I ask, and God answers. It never originates

I’m about to discard hundreds of old CDs, but then I decide to see what folks do with all of them. I’ve found “Shattered Art,”

For those of us who overthink everything, who ruminate, who infuse everything with meaning–even toenails or pencils or acorns–and who insist on diagnosing and fully

We’re driving down a two-lane road in West Virginia. We’re tired. We’re grumpy. We’re ready to be home. Then a slow-poke truck pulls in front

When I became a mother, I’ve never forgotten what the nurse said at the first appointment with that newborn baby crying beside me.  “Everything has

I’m reading Interior Freedom again by Jacques Philippe, and I’m so encouraged by this little quote:“Faith, hope, and charity. . .  if they are rooted