Honoring God with What We Have
A beloved and integral building at my best friend’s business burned down almost a week ago. As the wife of a fire captain, of course I know things burn all the time. Sparks kindle. Paper, grass, and wood catch flame. Then we pray the water comes to suffocate the fire …
Remember the part in Disney’s Alice in Wonderland where Alice comes across playing cards painting the roses red? They’re busy at work, climbing up and down ladders, slinging paint high onto the rose bushes and singing away, when Alice approaches and starts to dance along with them. …
The snow and ice have lifted here in Texas, and much of our lives have resumed as normal, but the weight of the storm left a mark on homes, structures, and utilities that will take many months to repair, if at all. Our bodies can face the same damage …
We are finding ourselves with more margin nowadays because everything has been shut down around us. Months without church services helped us see church is in people, not a building. Seasons without team sports and work conferences reminded us that we like having nowhere to go. Now, we are packing …
To say I have struggled with beauty since I was a model would be a lie. It started way before then–the first time one of my parent’s friends said I was pretty as if I wasn’t in the room, all the times people treated me kinder when I smiled at …
