When evil is so great that it exceeds our words, it's hard to know how to talk to our children. After the tragic and much publicized events of 911, Laura Bush, then the wife of the President, wrote a letter to children under the age of 13 to help articulate the events on their level. She wrote a ...
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It's hard to know how merciful your marriage is until you have a reason to hate each other. Instead of just avoiding a little evaluation here, it serves us well to stop and consider, "How full of mercy am I to my mate?" Because I don't want you to experience that "I could hate you right now" moment, ...
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I'm sharing one of my favorite names of God today on Do Not Depart. It's the name that means "God is peace." Not a temporary, weak, or exaggerated peace, but a peace that gets down into our low places and is stronger and greater than any of our hardest things.
I love knowing that God ...
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My recent travels have had me on more than a few flights while I'm doing my summer relay. Walking through First Class usually stirs up "the covet" in me, as I join the ranks of the typical traveler in the back of the plane. There's not a lot of room between seats back there, and my heart goes out to ...
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Can you imagine being invited to a wedding, only to have someone crack the door, reach their hand out offering a mint, and then close pull the door shut again, telling you they'll send you a link to the pictures? That's a little bit how I'm feeling about TRYING to share some of what has been filling ...
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