I had a conversation with another mom a few years back. We were sitting at her kitchen table, both of us nursing cold coffee, talking
I grew up in a home with a you-earn-what-you-get kind of system. Chores had a chart. Allowance followed completion. Privileges were tied to responsibility. It
I wasn’t looking for God the summer I turned twenty-four. But God’s grace pursues us even when we’re not seeking it. I was looking for
Alongside this month’s posts, we considered all the ways many misunderstand mercy. When you hear that mercy never fails, you might believe it’s there to
There’s a chapter of my story I don’t tell often. I’m not still ashamed of it, though, because I’ve genuinely made peace with it. It’s
Eight years ago, a relationship that mattered deeply to me got fractured and couldn’t be repaired quickly. I had done everything I knew to do.
For about eighteen months I carried a decision I had made. One I couldn’t undo, one that had affected people I loved, one that I
There was a woman in my life a few years back who made it difficult to choose compassion over judgment when she spoke to me.
Eight years ago, a close friend said something about me to someone else. Something that wasn’t true, that found its way back to me through
I missed a deadline last spring. By four days. I had committed to the piece months earlier, for an editor I respected deeply. Unfortunately, I
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