Recently my 8 year old girl said to me, “Mom, if we could know the future, what would happen?” I have to confess that I could not answer…
Intentionality in generosity
“It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your…
Hope in 2021
Hope: to look forward with desire and reasonable confidence My wife hates lifting weights. While she enjoys exercising, she would quickly lament “weights are heavy”. Like so many…
The importance of Black History Month
Dr. Beverly Tatum has written several powerful books on race and ethnicity. Her National Bestseller Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other…
Intentionality in media consumption
“Distracted from distraction by distraction.” —T. S. Eliot Media throughout the ages has always had a pull on our attention, and I’m not one who would say that’s…
Intentionality in relationships
“To love is to be vulnerable.” —C. S. Lewis Everyone wants to live a life full of purpose and meaning. But as a society, we’ve somehow ventured away…
A better way
“One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something.” —Henry David Thoreau Life Happens Do you ever feel like most of your life…
Where are you?
What place or location describes where you find yourself as 2021 begins? The bottom of a well, a palace, a prison cell, the promised land, the wilderness, Eden,…
I’m daring to hope again
Listen, I am not a goal-oriented person. I never have been. For some reason I am not motivated by goals. I think I’m more motivated by issues and…
Running away from pain
As I began my journey into adulthood, I think I subconsciously hoped to one day become an expert in pain avoidance, to deftly navigate life’s circumstances unscathed, untouched,…
In the Fullness of Time
When I was pregnant with my first baby, a little girl, I went eleven days past my due date–and even then, she only vacated my body thanks to…
