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December 22, 2022

Handling Holiday Heartache Many have experienced this perplexing paradox: walking through glittering, cheerful holidays with a heart aching from a malady of flesh or soul. We try ignoring the pain of our reality. Stuffing down the ache. Striving to behave so others won’t see the implosion happening within. Attempting to unzip our hard like a heavy garment to hang in the corner, so we can get through to the other side without breaking under the weight.  As if that were...

September 16, 2021

Understanding the Peace that Passes Understanding The word peace displays many facets. Peace ranges from the absence of war and hostility, to personal relational harmony. The spectrum of peace sweeps from a sense of unbroken well-being and contentment, to freedom from disputes and conflict, to the Messianic peace where Christ has reconciled us to God. But, in a fiery hard, how do we experience peace? We offer genuine sentiment to others to encounter “the peace that passes understanding” as they...

March 25, 2021

How to Balance the Myriad Aspects of Life What an ugh-filled year. We’ve lived pandemic for twelve plus months. After lockdowns and shutdowns, layoffs and closings, masks and restrictions, sickness and tragic lives lost, we catch a glimpse of light shimmering at the end of our long travelled tunnel. With folks rolling up sleeves to receive the rolled out vaccines, the air echos with sighs of relief at the prospect of unmasking and moving on with life in a “more normal”...

January 14, 2021

HOW TO HAVE PEACE IN THE CHAOS Well. Here we are. Nestled in the middle of the first month of the new year, happy and content 2020 fades behind us. Finally. We’ve arrived in the year designated to usher in a return to normal. To sanity. To peace. But, from appearances, 2021 did not get the memo. For we still move about masked and social distancing. Still await our vaccines. Still suffer the loss of friends and family to a...

June 18, 2020

When the World is a Hot Mess

It’s so hard to hear You, God, when the world screams loud. We are a mess down here. Every time we think things are settling down we open our eyes to new chaos. Your daughters are weary. Our spinning minds and aching hearts need Your touch. It’s so hard to walk in peace when conflict abounds. Arguments. Opinions. Confusing and conflicting information. Messages with uncomfortable undertones. Hashtags and slogans crowding our streets, our screens, and our minds. Statistics and reports...

June 4, 2020

Two Things to Remember in These Bizarre Times

Just as we feel the coronavirus rollercoaster slow, allowing our spinning worlds to calm, our disorientation to adjust, and our expectations rise the ride will end soon, the tracks take an unexpected turn into a dark tunnel. A neon flashing light fizzles and spits the word “horror” as our vision fills with surreal sights and images. Pinned to the ground, a man pleads for breath. Crowds fired-up with frustration and anger, protest in peace but with passion for justice. Their...

May 28, 2020

Robin’s Story: Facing Fear and Anxiety

Today we launch the section of this blog titled “Treasures in Your Stories”; a platform to share the courageous stories of women and how God has walked with them in their hard.” It is not lost on me that the first woman to share here is a dear friend who was the initial audible voice God used to encourage me to start writing, and has since had my back in all ways. Awesome that God would use her to open...

October 24, 2019

Holy Tension; aka, How to Wrestle an Alligator

What difficult thing do you wrestle? Against what hard do you struggle? Does a task God has given you appear to rise up with gnashing teeth and slashing tail? Is there a stress-causing challenge you wish removed so life would be pert near perfect? What seeming impossibility keeps you exhausted and fearful in its grip? Bottom line: what alligator are you wrestling? When my husband texts early in the week and asks “what’s up?” and the response is “wrestling alligators”,...