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The Main Idea (31 Days of Balance – Day 31)
This is part of a 31-day series on balanced living. Click here to read the introduction to this series, and click here to read all of the posts.
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At The River
This is Ingrid. If you’ve been visiting me here for long at all, you’ve probably already seen her sweet face in other posts I’ve written about my mission experiences in Belize. Over the past two...
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His Kind Of Love
I was listening to the radio this morning when a song carried me away from my present reality. With lyrics that penetrated my heart and touched something in me that needed to be reached, the song...
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Gasping
Lately, it has begun the minute I get up in the morning. I turn on my iPod for background music as I wipe away the bleary-eyed remnants of sleep, attempting to get my head and my thoughts in the right...
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Once and Again
It had really been a very sweet evening until that point. We had gone through the routine: brushing teeth, bath time, back into her room for jammies, story time, and prayers. The same as every night,...
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To Show Our Love
I didn’t know what to think about it then, and I’m not sure what to think about it now. He sat on the sidewalk outside the store, the narrow awning doing little to shield him from the misty rain. A...
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In Light of the Truth
I sat in the tiny chapel for the second night in a row. I was hoping for a special Word for my heart alone but feared that it had already come and, unbeknownst to me, had slipped past unnoticed....
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On Approach
They captivate me. Glimmering golden alongside the road, making the most ordinary of routes feel like a wondrous journey. Wildflowers budding and blooming anew, proclaiming spring’s arrival even if...
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Ways Along the Way
When I was in kindergarten, we lived just a few blocks from the school. Every morning, after filling my little belly with rolled eggs (the rest of the world calls them omelets) and taming my thick hair...
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In Pursuit
We’re in a series at my (awesome) church right now called “The Big Picture,” and we’re exploring the idea of God’s will for our lives. We’ve been saying how so often we act like God’s will is something...
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When You Don’t Have What You Need
I was eleven when I landed my first gig. My piano teacher, a giant among piano teachers in our town, had somehow secured a slot for several of his advanced students to play at an international arts...
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When Bad Turns To Worse
Sometimes bad news hits you out of the clear blue sky. Sometimes you’re minding your own business, blowing bubbles with your daughter on a sunny and unseasonably cool afternoon when the news comes....
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At A Time Like This
I didn’t know her as well as I would have liked. I didn’t know much beyond the superficial things that members of a church community come to know about one another. She called me her little sister on...
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When All Is Washed Away
On our second trip out onto the beach that day, she made the inevitable discovery that the sand castle she and her daddy had worked so hard to build had disappeared. She walked in circles around the...
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Worship and Music: A 31-Day Series
On a recent Sunday morning, I stopped where I was during the first song of church and looked around the room. Several hundred people were gathered in the semi-darkness, and from my position on the...
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What is Worship?
I am a word nerd. There’s no denying it. One of the first things I do when preparing a message or a post is to look up the definition of any words central to what I’m trying to say. Before I go any...
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Worship and God
Worship is a complicated thing, and as I’ve been working on this series I’ve realized the immense depth of the subject. I’ve been doing a lot of research, but clearly can’t include all of the...
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Worship and Us: Why does it matter?
This past summer, my four year old daughter decided about once a week that she wanted to dress like me. It started one day when we were meeting some friends for a playdate. I was wearing a T-shirt and...
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