How Mercy and Second Chances Redeemed My Biggest Failure

The God of mercy and second chances

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 a fantastic story about mercy and second chances, but it involves other people whose privacy matters to me. And some stories aren’t entirely yours to tell even when they’re about […]

The Free Gift Found in Second Chances

Our God is the God of second chances. When you fall, He comes running to you.

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 had let the chaos of a brutal homeschool project and three overlapping writing projects convince me I had more time than I did. And I thought I’d blown it. No […]