Broken Bones, Broken Brains
My family has endured its fair share of broken bones, ranging from arms and wrists to elbows and fingers. One of the worst breaks occurred at a beautiful park...
Author: Joy Smalley
God, What Are You Doing?
Our mask mandate just lifted this week. It seems that life will be returning to some semblance of normal as we get used to breathing the unfiltered air and...
Attachment Matters
I became pregnant for the first time at the age of 23; it was both an unexpected pregnancy and an unexpected extra baby. I was working at a university...
Recreating God
My relationship with God is a struggle. When I was in early elementary school I would pray the sinners pray every night because I believed that...
The Coexisting Nature of Division and Unity
When you hear the word division, what do you think of? Church splits, maybe? Or the devolving of a team? Or maybe just the horrors of math?...
The Overwhelming Noise of Social Media
Noise is not my friend. You might even call noise my nemesis because it can overwhelm me to a point where I feel out of control of my own...
Wondering at Beautiful Skies and Suffering
Mongolia has a beautiful sky. It’s big, it’s clear and in the 1990s, it was the place I loved to look. In the evenings the air would be crisp...
Expect Nothing, Hope Everything
MKs and TCKs such as myself are very good at lowering our expectations. We don’t expect to live in stability. We don’t expect friendships to last. We don’t expect...
Drenched Yet?
I can see Jesus and his disciples in their boat, crossing the Sea of Galilee, when a storm hits. It isn’t a nice storm, it is a rough one--even...
He is God and I am Not
I am not a gardener and I have no idea how to be one. I’ve never owned a plant, I don’t buy flowers and given a...
