Death is harsh, and one can never fully be ready for it. Grief is awkward - the kind of awkward that is the cumulative effect of feeling we...

Recently I spoke about a mother and a daughter-in-law at a women's conference. More than six hundred women gathered to hear stories, an...

W ho can we trust? Where are the real victories? Politicians flip what they say, especially on a campaign trail. The media ...

T his morning as I sat with my tea and kaya* toast, I thought once again of two friends who I no longer am able to contact. I have searched...

~ an expensive trip for a frugal soul the last two years we made long, costly trips. in 2012 i felt we needed to visit my brother in the...

So Mother's Day is two days away (for countries including:   United States, Italy, Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, and Turkey). A...

A vivid sensing came today: it is us in our busy days with our needs churning within us looking hither, thither for answers. We are busy re...

Today we look at Psalm 9-10 which is really one Psalm, written as an acrostic, using the Alphabets to start off each line. It's a grea...

I recently had one of those moments. Everything seemed bleak and too much. I felt stuck, trapped, foolish, and small. But I stepped away...

We don't really do Valentine's. You have heard the reasons: cost, mush, rush, hush.. but really, it's a tad too lovey-dovey f...

We walk with God the way we always do life: in our strength.  We count on our ability to study Scripture, to serve, to drum up 'faith...

GRACE, God tracks us who once sought Him. This past week, what i have believed, written and taught came over me again - - and Grace works l...

it's with much sadness that i read the story of how a child prodigy finally broke free - only to find herself with licence and the very...