“You can’t eat the plastic fruit that goes with the pretend kitchen,” I told my then 18-month old daughter repeatedly. Even though it looks real. Even though we call it an apple. Even though it’s red ... Read More about 5 Rotten Cores in the Plastic-Fruit Gospel
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I’ve been a minister’s wife for 14 years, and people sometimes ask me if it feels like I live in a fishbowl. Truthfully, nothing made me understand the fishbowl experience quite like quarantine. All ... Read More about A Mother’s Prayer from the Fish Bowl
Potty Training in Quarantine: 5 Lessons from the Throne of Grace
I have serious potty-training anxiety. I’ve successfully trained two other humans, I should be confident. You’d think in the middle of a pandemic, in unprecedented global devastation, teaching Emory ... Read More about Potty Training in Quarantine: 5 Lessons from the Throne of Grace
Watered from Within: Fruit-Bearing Women in a Drought-Scorched Land
In recent weeks, our South Florida community has experienced record-setting drought. My family moved here four months ago and we’ve only seen it rain a few times (including today praise God!). We got ... Read More about Watered from Within: Fruit-Bearing Women in a Drought-Scorched Land
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The 44th psalmist ascends the historic mountain of Israel’s power and prosperity. Wars won. Enemies crushed. Lands conquered. God’s name made famous. Blessing after blessing is recounted. Then ... Read More about Nothing Can Separate Us: Romans 8 Love for a Psalm 44 Season
The Dawn: Darkness Could Not Overcome Him
In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. In the beginning, the earth was formless, and darkness was over the face of the deep (Gen 1:2). Then God spoke. And ... Read More about The Dawn: Darkness Could Not Overcome Him