spacious place

  This weekend and every day, here’s to living from the spacious place . . . But me he caught — reached all the way  from sky to sea; he pulled me out Of that ocean of hate, that enemy chaos, the void in which I was drowning. They hit me when I was...

Seven Signs of Life

  I have a friend who once said that you could tell the state of her soul by looking at the state of her eyebrows. I think there’s some real truth to that.   The outward condition of our lives really does have something to indicate about our inward...

on summer

My big kids have four days left of preschool—two this week and two next—and then it’s officially summertime. Eight weeks of total freedom until school begins again.   At our house, summer means pool days, beach outings, too-late bedtimes, s’mores around the fire...

a prayer for Monday

  Today, we wake up to a new week with new challenges, new normals, and new demands. We can’t control much of anything. But one thing we can control is how we treat ourselves. So as we face this new week, we ask God to help us stay away from the toxic self...

on tending limes and feelings

I wrote a bit last week about fear, and how fear can keep us stuck and swirling. And, since then, I’ve been thinking so much about feelings. Probably because I’m a person with a lot of feelings, and at times in my life I have mishandled those feelings and have paid...