When God Answered a Prayer This is our wedding story, and everything He did to make it happen There is a moment I keep returning to when I think about our wedding, and it isn’t the flowers, or the dress, or even the look on Bill’s face when I walked down the aisle. It’s the…
A Dream About Birds: A Reflection on Rest, Trust, and Faith Of all the animals in the world, and wow, God made so many, I can never stop loving birds. Horses are majestic. Lions, powerful. But birds? Birds are the ones I can’t stop watching, small, vulnerable, and somehow completely free. I always pay attention…
Pull up a chair my friend. I’d like to share another story with you. This is the story about how Bill came to understand and believe in Jesus. Saying the Name: Jesus I know, I just said that Name: Jesus. Jesus. It’s distinctive. It’s divisive. It’s controversial. It’s ridiculed, taken in vain and even offensive…
🌾 When the Ordinary Moments Bring You to Tears This morning, I was making a chocolate chai latte (from a packet 😁) when I started thinking about a recipe I used to make years ago. (Chocolate Magic Mud Pudding) I stood on my toes and reached up into my cabinet above the stove where all…
Letting go and healing when a spouse dies is a process. Grief is unlike anything I’ve ever been through. It fits into its own category. It’s not a straight line or a five-box checklist. Most people move back and forth between feeling their loss and rebuilding daily life, sometimes in the same hour. That “whiplash”…