Bible, Holidays

Spring Clean: Devotions for Lent Book Launch (with FREE Giveaway to My First 25 Responders)!

In which my new book, Spring Clean: Devotions for Lent, goes live...and there's a FREE journal giveaway for my first 25 responders!

Bible, Holidays

Shrove (Pancake) Tuesday: Cleaning Out the Pantry

A free excerpt from my new book, Spring Clean: Devotions for Lent, coming January 22!

Bible, Mental Health

cross/fit

I've been a church-going girl all of my life, literally since I was born. Christianity has always played a huge role in my life and worldview, and a key expression of that for me is attending church.  In my strongest moments, I show up, worship, connect with or encourage someone else there, and take home… Continue reading cross/fit

Bible

pica

Last week, I got a name for a behavior that has long afflicted my youngest daughter.  The behavior is craving and /or consuming substances which are not food - recently it has been crayons and pencil erasers - and the name is pica. Lots of people manifest it, but no one knows exactly what causes… Continue reading pica

Bible

blue like don

About once a month, I treat myself to a little something I like to call No-Hat Day.  No-Hat Day is when I temporarily cast off all the roles I try to fill in my life and do something that is purely me in the moment.  For a few hours, I'm neither doting mother nor dutiful… Continue reading blue like don