On January 12, 2010 the foundations of the earth shook as a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti. The already-poorest-country in the Western hemisphere suffered unthinkable destruction. News reports confirmed the ruin, chaos, grief, tragedy. By all accounts Haiti was devastated. Period. Did you know earthquakes foreshadowed major plot shifts inRead the Rest…
It is spring, so I enrolled my kids in swim lessons. Since I have three kids, I played with two of them in the pool while the third was in a lesson. Each lesson was half an hour long, and I enjoyed the dynamics of having just two kids toRead the Rest…
“Mom,” Whitney said with just a bit of wistfulness in her voice, “Would you play with my hair?” I sat down beside my 25 year old daughter and wove my fingers through her thick dark hair, combing and twisting its silky softness until I remembered that I had something toRead the Rest…
Mary Magdalene was standing outside the empty tomb crying. It is early morning and still dark outside. Jesus, the One she called “my Lord” had cast seven demons out of her and she had followed Him faithfully ever since. Mary’s life was turned upside down by Jesus, dramatically transformed andRead the Rest…
For forty years I’ve heard the Scripture. I’ve seen movie portrayals of the Passion of Jesus, but this year it became real in a way that I neither anticipated nor prepared for. I sat in a meeting and we discussed how powerful it would be to have a cross madeRead the Rest…
