Did you know I’ve spent many months watching you on Facebook? Yep, quiet me, phone in hand, surfing away just about every hour. I’ve read your posts on productivity, procrastination or praise. Read your rants. Saw your vacation albums, saw you check in at your doctor appointment. Watched some of your videos. Before I crawl out of bed, Continue Reading
Is There Life After Elementary Art?
The book Life After Art by Matt Appling arrived in my mailbox at just at the right time. Don't you just love when God makes sure you get a message when you need it most? I do. Because I needed to sit in Matt's classroom as prepare my talks for a women's retreat I'm speaking at this weekend. Matt reminded me live on purpose (by faith), Continue Reading
Is Keeping Secrets the Answer?
Are you protective of who you tell what? Do you keep parts of your life off limits? Just your secret... If so, what might happen if you were honest about your dreams or your struggles? What if sharing your heart brought you the intimacy you long for, greater freedom and even joy? Would you risk sharing then? I believe one of the deepest longings Continue Reading
Another Blank Page
Our lives are like books, our days, like pages. Each day starts out blank, clean, free of marks, words and actions. As a writer, I'm often thinking about life as a book and how I will live out my limited pages. Will I live a story worth retelling after I'm gone? Should I even live a record? And if so, what is worth writing down? Only Continue Reading
Do You Really Want More of the Same?
Do you really want more of the same? Black and white. Plain vanilla. Bland. Status quo. Normal. Is that what you really want? to blend in? I can still hear my fifteen-year-old daughter say to me, "Please be different." She typed those words just moments before on Facebook chat. She was trying to encourage to her friend who is struggling with Continue Reading
The Truth Behind My Busy
One of my biggest pet peeves is the talk of busyness. Why are we so busy? Don't we have a choice of being busy or not? Or are we all victims of our fast-paced culture saying "yes" to every invitation we get? What does being busy actually equal anyway? You do the math. Your busy + my busy = ________. What did you come up with? "Twice busy"? A Continue Reading