On July 11, 1979, when I was eight years old, Skylab fell to the earth. Debris showered Western Australia. This 170,000 pound space station had odds of 1 to 152 of hitting a human, 1 to 7 of hitting a major city. The news of the impending disaster must have filtered through our RCA television set, as the nightly news dramatized it all. My young heart pounded in fear. Of all the memories I have carried through the years, one of them is this--I went outside on my swingset that evening and I prayed, "Oh God, please don't let Skylab hit me and my family. Protect people, so they don't get hurt." ... Read the Post
The God Who Foreshadows
The story of Jesus’s visit to the temple as a 12-year-old has always intrigued me. Why? Because it is a seemingly unusual inclusion. It’s the only story we have of Jesus’s boyhood following His birth and it’s only transcribed in one of the four Gospels—Luke. To be sure, it’s a great story. One that every parent can empathize with. Jesus’s family goes to Jerusalem for the Passover feast. Afterwards, His parents head home and inadvertently leave Jesus behind. They travel for a day before realizing He isn’t with them. Then they return to Jerusalem and spend a day searching. They find ... Read the Post
How Do You Spell Faith?
Much of my younger life was spent running from God rather than running to Him. At age 46, I finally reached a place of brokenness that left me crying out for God’s mercy and grace. And He lovingly lifted me out of that dark place and into His light. Over the next several years, God began to tear down the walls of lies that had kept me from Him and smoothed off most of the very rough edges of my past. Once God got hold of my life, I couldn’t get enough of learning more and seeking to grow closer to Him. I looked at almost 50 years of what I considered wasted time, (although God never wastes ... Read the Post
Get In It
Years ago when I volunteered in ministry leadership, I had the opportunity to talk to men about my faith, my struggles and how my relationship with God had grown. One night while speaking to a group of men at a local church, a friend approached me with a confession. He shared his desire to grow in his faith, but he confessed his struggle with reading the Bible. What he didn’t realize was that he could not have one without the other. Our faith is grown out of the pages of God’s Word. I became heartbroken as I listened to his excuses for not having time to study the Bible. Of course, he ... Read the Post
Finding Beauty in the Silence
Hustle. Build. Grow. Increase. Work. Network. Sleep when you’re dead. No time for rest. Hustle. Hustle. Hustle. Every message around me was about the hustle. I was exhausted just reading the bombardment of messages. I had gone through the trainings. Countless books were scattered across my desk. I was doing what the gurus said, but the promised increase was not happening. I sat praying, “God, would you bless my work? Would you begin to open doors for me? And if this is not the road you want me to pursue, please change the dreams in my heart.” While the reply was not audible, I ... Read the Post
The Stormy Sea and the Wolf in the Garage
Photo Cred: Diego Catto Every October, our next-door neighbors display a snarling, larger-than-life werewolf figure in their yard. Last year, at 18 months old, our little boy was clearly afraid of it, but wasn’t yet able to communicate. So we weren’t surprised when, a few weeks ago, he started asking about “the wolf in the neighbor’s goh-gahge.” (He’s caught glimpses of it lurking in the back of their garage over the summer.) My husband and I didn’t want him to feel ashamed for his fear, but we did want to reassure him using concepts he could understand. Of course, we know that the wolf ... Read the Post
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