In our worship together the past few weeks, we have been examining Psalms of lament and considering what it means to bring not only our successes and shouts of joy to God, but also our disappointments, our failures, our frustrations, and our grief. We have had the chance to sing some of those ...
It’s been a year since my husband and I moved to Santa Barbara from Charlottesville, Virginia. For Jason, the move meant coming home to the city where he’d grown up; for me, it meant finding a new home in California. One of our first questions even before arriving in Santa Barbara was ...
It’s the end of the summer, and I’ve been thinking about summers when I was young, when my family used to spend time on the tobacco farm in eastern NC where my dad had grown up. My grandparents’ farm wasn’t particularly large, but during those hot summer days, it became for ...
In the past two months, I’ve watched Fiona hone her five senses and learn to assimilate the sights, smells, sounds, tastes and textures she experiences. Now with the ability to walk, it’s as if she’s been set loose in an entirely new world. She is quite literally an explorer on a ...
When I was in my third trimester of pregnancy with my daughter, I received an insight on motherhood from an unexpected source. A manager with whom I worked at the time interrupted a business-related chat we were having in her office to share with me a tender memory from when her first child ...
Blogging for His glory? When I was a little girl, I used to love to write stories and did so with abandon. I liked writing about fanciful adventures and places, and injecting my stories with vivid colors and characters. As I've grown into an adult, writing has remained one of my passions, but it ...