The sun rises brightly in the blue sky of early spring. It is the day that my house of nearly thirteen years gets listed with the realtor. I

by Barb Lownsbury So many thoughts run through my head, like the random things I miss and normally take for granted. Things like hugging people, seeing my c...

NOTE: I wrote this literally the week before Covid-19 broke loose and became a common household term, before social distancing and self-isolation became the ...

By KARISA MOORE When clouds brew consistently darker, I don’t always remember—all storms cease. My son endured a particularly difficult day, filled with scho...

This is the second installment of my short series on my current life lessons. Lesson #2: Being a life-long learner is harder than it sounds. I had a realtor ...

A quick announcement: today at 2:30 I have the privilege of speaking on a great podcast called “Begin Again with Winston Faircloth” (don’t you just love that...

I am going through a growth season, a time where many things are changing simultaneously; many ideas and learning points are coming into my view.  Over the n...

By JENNY SEYLAR At midnight, 2019 passed uneventfully into 2020, a new decade, and it presented a blank canvas on which to paint my story. So many times peop...

The air conditioning hummed in our comfortable minivan as we travelled down a small, dusty road in Mexico.  Each of us in our small group had wanted to get o...

By MARLA WALDRON Scripture: Luke 1:26-56 Focus Passage But she was much perplexed by his words and pondered what sort of greeting this might be.  (Luke 1:29)...