Faith and Doubt
It Isn’t Joyful without You
I used to wonder how it was that the world kept on spinning and life kept on as usual for everyone else while ours was hovering in hospital limbo. When Elli would get sick, we’d initiate survival mode, removing everything but the basics: someone with Elli at all times, someone with the other kids, food,…
Read MoreSo This Guy Asked if I’d Fly to the Other Side of the World ~ Life:Unmasked
It isn’t every day that I get a second chance via text message. It’s happened exactly once, as a matter of fact, just a two weeks ago when Matthew Paul Turner invited me to join a team of bloggers traveling to Sri Lanka to report on World Vision’s work there. It isn’t every day that…
Read MoreGood News: I Cried in Church This Week ~ Finding Church
I’d seen it there before, tucked into the front right corner. No spotlight, no decorative purple drape, no wreath of thorns. Just wood beams on a rolling platform. But this morning, from the 2nd row piano side, it seemed to loom at me, a stark foreboding reminder of torture and death. Like having a gallows…
Read MoreThe Apology We Should Have Seen from Jared Wilson
UPDATE: Jared posted a genuine apology and removed the original post. I really appreciate what he said and accept his explanation for leaving the original post up for a time. Thank you Jared. have been thinking a lot about Jared Wilson and wondering what he really thinks, in the privacy of his thoughts, about his…
Read MoreAll I Have Is a Wordless Wail
News of the sad, the disappointing, the frustrating, the terrifying, and the tragic have been rolling like high tide. The brokenness of people, of health, of the world, and of relationships is too much to bear. All I can do is sit in wordless wailing. Helpless in the face of it all. Prayer seems a…
Read MoreI’ve Had Some Bad Ideas Before, But This Is the First Time It Landed Someone in the ER
Saturday morning I watched paramedics roll my husband out of the room on a stretcher. And it was partly my fault. He’s been complaining about vacation weight gain lately, so that morning I casually suggested that we go together to a class at the gym. A class disarmingly named “Body Pump.” Not “Boot Camp” or…
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