Are You Being or Doing?

I am ADHD when it comes to reading books/devotionals. I have six going on at the same time but none consistently. There was a time in my life when I got up every morning early to read the section of Scripture assigned for “getting through the Bible in the year”, read three devotionals, and worked on a Bible study. All …

Deposit Your Worries

Why do I not do the things good for me? Why don’t I eat an apple every day, drink eight glasses of water, exercise, and journal consistently? I know how good I feel when I do these things, but I don’t always do them.   I need incentive. It always helps to get something new. I used to be excited …

A Burning in my Belly

I feel like Jacob wrestling God. I thought I was finished with this. God and I wrestled quite a bit during my sister’s illness and then after her death. I thought I had reached the other side. I no longer wrestle with the loss of someone so dear to me, yet I’ve found myself questioning inside and out a lot …

Writing Prayers

…I hadn’t wanted to insult Aibileen when she told me her idea. I tried to urge her out of it, over the phone. “Writing isn’t that easy. And you wouldn’t have time for this anyway, Aibileen, not with a full-time job.” “Can’t be much different than writing my prayers every night.” It was the first interesting thing she told me …

Response-able

From Love Has a Face by Michele Perry-  (Above picture: Michele holding one of her 80 kids in Sudan.) “I asked Jesus what I needed to do. What should I do, Lord, in the face of what looks and feels some days like standing nose to nose with a thousand-foot-high tidal waves of darkness? What should I do in the …