Category Archives: Faith

I Hate Her Pretty Hands: Why Envy Is Really Unbelief

Her hair always lay the right way. She even had it cut like Mary Lou Retton. Perfect. Straight. So opposite of mine. Mine was quite unruly. Curly, you see. I must have figured out how to do something to it because I could feather it. Feathering was still very popularRead the Rest…

Pregnant with Purpose

“Weeping may endure for a night but joy comes in the morning!” Psalm 30:5 NIV   As some of you girls already know, I am expecting baby number five . . . and so far I feel like I have been smacked down with a stomach bug from another planet.Read the Rest…

Beside Still Waters

God is in the rushing – and still – waters. I sat on a narrow stretch of land between two waters. On one side was the rushing Big Thompson River. On the other, a calm pool. The water all came from the same source – traveling from high in the RockyRead the Rest…

A Wretch Like Me

I wish you could join me for a church service in the prison I visit regularly. Together we’d experience praise that’s loud and joy that’s overflowing. We’d see worship that’s raw, transparent and vulnerable. An outside guest recently shared his testimony. “I was a stone cold drunk for 20 years.Read the Rest…

What Happened On The Day You Met Love?

But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember then from what you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. – Revelation 2:4 & 5a, NRSV One night, seventeen years ago, I sat on my college dorm roomRead the Rest…