When Life Doesn’t Turn Out The Way You Planned

by | Mar 25, 2016

Are you in need of some hope? It’s Holy Week, and there is no greater time to consider how faith in God might infuse your life with hope, especially when life doesn’t seem to be going according to your plan. My faith has certainly done that...

Three Ways to Keep Christmas Spirit Alive All Year Long

by | Dec 28, 2015

The big day is over. Now what? If you’re like me, you spend so much time planning, preparing, and priming to make Christmas special for everyone you love, that you feel a little let down once the calendar flips past December 25. I still have a refrigerator full of...

One Mother’s Miracle

by | Mar 28, 2015

Waiting is hard. Especially when you feel helpless in the face of a painful situation that you desperately wish were different. But for whatever reason, you are powerless to change it. You believe in time, things will be different, even better, but for the moment, you...

The Gift You’ll Never Regret

by | Dec 22, 2014

Yes, it’s that time of year again. Many songs call it the “most wonderful time of the year” and “the happiest season of all”, and for many that is absolutely true. Yet, for plenty of other people, the holidays can be the most miserable time of the year, and the most...

You Want Me To Do What?!

by | Apr 18, 2014

People make mistakes. Author and historian Thomas Fuller said, “He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.”  I’ll say it again, people make mistakes. A bridge has two sides. At some point...

Letting Go When All You Want To Do Is Hold On

by | Jan 2, 2014

I stopped making New Year’s resolutions years ago. Not because I don’t believe in them; because I am not very good at keeping them. Perhaps, like me, you can relate to passionately charging into the new year with the best of intentions to stress less, relax more,...