Live With Flair

Much of life consists of making wise decisions. I’m simply amazed at how many decisions I must make as I grow older. I continue to

I’m looking at a fun verb in scripture that appears as “snatched” or “caught.” It’s the same verb you read about when someone is “caught

Today I remember to choose to believe the best about people. In marriage, parenting, friendship, teaching, and in daily encounters with strangers, I’m tempted to

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