The Blog
When Clichés Don’t Cut it Anymore
A Mom’s Survival Guide to Simplifying Your Summer with Special Needs Kids
During my sabbatical, I am glad to welcome Meagan Ruffing for a summer post. Meagan is a parenting journalist and mom to three kids, one of whom has special needs. She loves sharing what’s worked and hasn’t worked for her and her family while...
Rest is the Necessary Ground Of New Life
It's time. I can see the familiar signs: the worry about things that normally don't cause me angst. The weariness that isn't cured by a good night's sleep. The lack of clarity—and lack of time to contemplate it. The irritability I feel whenever I spend even a few...
Productivity and How I {Don’t} Do It All
Applications are now open for the Fall 2018 and Spring 2019 Inspired Life Mastermind! If you wrestle with designing and building a life and work you love, you're not alone. In the Inspired Life Mastermind, I will...
When Mother’s Day Is More Than You Can Handle
Today’s guest post is not only about a tender topic that is close to my heart, but it is written by someone I love and...
The Gap of Christian Women Leaders — And What We Can Do About It
She asked me the question during a coaching call. Her coaching call. She’s a leader, responsible for speaking into the lives of thousands of other women. I was supposed to be asking her the questions. Instead, she turned the tables and put me in the hot seat: Where do...
What a Late Night Uber Ride Can Teach Us About Calling
The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God’s call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude. —Oswald Chambers, My Upmost For His Highest After eight days of non-stop...
Grit and the Hard Work of Never Giving Up
It’d been his plan since grade school. As proof, I have a note in my Bible with a pencil-drawn airplane in little-boy script. He drew it for me after a field trip to the Denver Museum of Science & Nature where he marveled at model airplanes. He wanted to go to the...
Living the Risen Life
I’ve thought about him a lot this week, in spite of the two thousand years that separate us. We have similar stories, I guess you could say. The unexpected illness. The brush with death. The risen life on the other side. There is only one stark difference: Lazarus...
The Story Behind the New Website
A Christian community is therefore a healing community, not because wounds are cured and pains are alleviated, but because wounds and pains become openings or occasions for a new vision. Mutual confession then becomes a mutual deepening of hope, and shared weakness...
