“Lord, I need grace I don’t have.” I sat on the couch in his office and silently prayed for God to help me to respond kindly. Across from me sat my boss who was a Christian man, and I worked at a Christian school. Over the course of several weeks, he had questioned my capabilities, misrepresented…
Now I live in sunny South Florida, and I have never experienced a military invasion where I’ve been overwhelmed, confined, and imprisoned, but I have hunkered down at my house and been felt walled in more than once with water on all sides because of a hurricane. My husband and I have both had a…
Y’all I am going to confess that sometimes I get so consumed about getting my way that I not only fail to see the pitfall, sometimes I fall into a pit that I actually created in the first place. I collapse into the pit of my fear and disappointment. I give way to doubt and…
Sometimes we try to serve and do what is right, and we end up battling an unjust attack. Our motives are questioned, and our good intentions are misinterpreted. The very person who should be our cheerleader and come along side us with support ends up being a critic who hurls a ton of condemnation at us….
When my plans get disrupted, I tend to measure the stress level in my life by the amount of tension in my shoulders and back. Does your back tighten up into a knot and turn into a wall of concrete like mine does? When I am dealing with a lot of heavy things emotionally, my insides…
Sometimes we have had to make hard decisions that no one should have to make. Life In this broken world is like that. Circumstances spiral out of your control, and they get really messy. Then, you have to figure out how to move forward when there is no clear roadmap on how to make the…