Everyone is shouting
As I write this, we’ve been “safer at home” for four months, it is 118 degrees in Phoenix, and my children have a severe case of cabin fever. (If you’ve read some of my recent blog entries, you may be [...]
Prayer: Hope in God
In the 1997 movie Conspiracy Theory, brilliant but evil Dr. Jonas tells the main character, “You shouldn’t watch, Jerry. This is a moment without hope.” Can I be honest? If I spend too much time on Fox, CNN, Facebook, and [...]
Prayer: Domestic Violence
Can I be honest? As I’m attempting to write this blog, I’ve gotten five minutes of work done in 30. My daughter needed help trying to get her computer to work (after ten frustrating minutes, I threw my hands up [...]
Prayer: Natural Disasters
When I was 12, a tornado leveled my small town, destroying many homes and our school, killing 29 people, and injuring about 350. It was a long time ago, and I rarely think about that day. But as I reread [...]
God is Able
Well, it has finally happened. My daughter has reached the level in math—at the advanced age of 11—where there’s nothing more I can do to help her. Recently she was struggling with her homework and showed it to me. “Mom, [...]
Pray: Education
January 24 is the International Day of Education. Full disclosure: some of these international-days-of can seem pretty obscure (Talk Like a Pirate, anyone?), but I have some skin in the game on this one. I’ve got three littles in school, [...]
Love drives out fear in Sobou, Burkina Faso
For many believers around the world, December is the season of increased persecution. As I’ve prayed for my brothers and sisters, I was reminded of a testimony I heard recently of one church who is overcoming persecution with love. I [...]
Prayer: The Persecuted Church
Where I live, in the United States, November means “Thanksgiving.” Although, technically, Thanksgiving is a one day public holiday, in typical American style we blow it up and stretch it out to epic proportions. We spend the whole month visiting [...]
Prayer for Media
In 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe published the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin. It became the #2 best seller in the nation (second only to the Bible), and turned the tide of white American sentement against slavery. Ten years later—19 months into [...]
Prayer: Marriage
My darling husband generally only gets to see me during my least-shining moments. Before he leaves for work, I am tearing apart the kitchen to feed my hungry horde and make lunches to send to school, to the soundtrack of, [...]