We can never hate anyone into transformational, redemptive change.

Thank you, RAIN. I need you today.

I have to navigate the tension between the bitter and the sweet, allowing them to sit side-by-side, both having their rightful place.

You know that moment when your "check engine" light goes on during a 3,000 mile trek across the country and you are in the middle of...

Life. A gift. Filled with surprises. And adventures.

What matters is that HOPE is stirred and gifted and received, multiplying over and over and sent out into the world one flicker at a time.

Nothing is more sacred than to share another's pain. It brings both great sorrow and surprising healing.

Wisdom is the way of Jesus. He’s all about it. He doesn’t get caught up in the ALWAYS this or ALWAYS that. He’s all about the SOMETIMES.

I don't always make the best decisions in the middle of the night because of all the weird things that go on in my brain when I can't sleep.

Saturday night at 6 pm begins something I call Celebration Sunday, a 24-hour period of un"doing."

I hide. I keep secrets. I stay in my cage. I show you a false version of me. I protect my self at all costs.

"Life is always moving. You have permission to move with it, to leave behind the things that do not serve you, and become someone new,...

Deserts are bizarre. They are sandy. They are stark. They are sun-baked. Last week, for our anniversary trip, we traveled to Arizona. I...

I've had three marriages so far. [Don't freak out just yet. Read until the end.] My first marriage was characterized by HIDING. It lasted...

"Parenting may be less about raising our children and more about raising ourselves. It compels us to break our own cycles of shame and...

The journey of faith is a strange one. I thought it would be a straight and definitive path to the known. Do this and this and I will...

There once was a nine-year-old who asked her mom for a lacrosse stick. And goggles. And to join a cute team of other nine-year-olds....

"You can't love and control at the same time." In this episode on the Deconstructing Mamas podcast, Jared Byas, author of that quote,...

Being in a battle with the mean monster of anxiety can be paralyzing. Like stand-there-and stare paralyzing. Like I-need-to-lay-down...

"I sink beneath the swirling surf of words, fears, expectations, conditioning, and advice—and feel for the Knowing." (Glennon Doyle) In...