It was the baby that did it. I was at LAX Airport, departing for the 2013 ACFW conference. I had lots to look forward to—seeing two of my critique partners, meeting with my agent and potential publishers, a trip to visit friends in New Mexico on the way back. My first completed […]
Once upon a time, there was a little girl who loved to play Cinderella. She would don her grandmother’s tattered patchwork skirt and go about with her broom, or dress up in her mother’s beribboned petticoat and bedjacket and run upstairs fleeing the “palace” and leaving her slipper behind for the prince—who might […]
It rained last night. Oh, I know that might not seem unusual to those of you in more eastern climes where summer rain falls often. But to us in drought-parched southern California, where rain on a warm June night is near unheard of even in good years, this moisture came a sweetly […]
Thank you for joining me for this special Easter journey! Read Parts One, Two, Three, and Four of our “Journey to Jerusalem” here. Happy Easter–He is Risen! “Therefore you too have grief now, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.” […]
Join us for this special Easter journey! Read Parts One, Two, and Three of our “Journey to Jerusalem” here. A blessed Good Friday to you. “All of us like sheep have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; But the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all To […]
Join us for this special Easter journey! Read Parts One and Two of “Journey to Jerusalem” here. A blessed Maundy Thursday to you. “Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He would depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own […]
Join us for this special Easter journey! Read Part One of “Journey to Jerusalem” here, and feel free to subscribe to be sure you don’t miss any of the series. “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the afflicted…to grant […]
Well, last week I blogged about To-Do List Craziness. And apparently what happens when I let my to-do list get too crazy is: I get sick. Sometimes I think the Lord lets me get sick just so I’ll slow down a bit. Does that ever happen to you? Thankfully—one of the […]
Note: Taking a break from our Black History series today to focus on Lent, but watch for a special guest to finish the month off next week! It’s Ash Wednesday, friends. The beginning of Lent, when believers round the world will take time to look into ourselves—and hopefully, at the Lord—and prepare our hearts […]
It’s February—Black History Month! Sometimes people feel that separating out a select month for African-American history only emphasizes racial divisions rather than helping overcome them, but I love how my friend Sandra Barnes addresses this issue here. It’s only in the last few years that I’ve really become aware of Black History […]
