I was shocked, the first time I heard of it. A breathing app? I mean, why would anyone need reminders on their phone to breathe? With a list that seems like, I scratch off one item and add two more, I run faster, push harder to take excellent care of the babies in my home. I […]

I first heard the word on one of the podcasts I was listening to recently; Jamie Ivey. The word gripped my heart, but also, just the sound of it made me want to run. Then I walked through the trenches with Kara Kippett, tasting each of her words, like a morsal of sweetness and bitter, drawn […]

Hazard lights flash, as an officer coasts past, watching the well-dressed woman risk her life to post a political sign on the side of a busy street. We are all sign-posters, really, daily…..Of what we believe and why. No, we may not risk getting plowed over by speeding metal contraptions, but… We all risk losing much, […]

Tears fell, like the weight of all that is human, as her blonde locks float to the ground; husband, razor in hand, kids near, watching their mother face death with dignity and grace. Her face graven on the screen before me; honest, transparent, authentic….everything I long to be, but shuffle through the stones of mourning, often […]

I thoughtlessly announced what my heart has always known since the day I brought her home, “You are special.” Her toddler voice squeeks back at me from the rear seat, “I am?” Fluctuating at the end, as if asking, “Is it really so?” My heart was broken at the thought of her not knowing, her large […]

I must have stepped on the scale a thousand times, those years where weight and my own ability to slay my life felt carried, heavy in my hands. Little did I know, this self-management had been carried, not just from my mass, but to my life, heart, religion, and thinking about God himself. I grew up […]