10 Ways to Reconnect with Family When You’re Back in the States
As I write this I’m flying over the big blue ocean, a 4-year-old contentedly playing a LeapPad game next to me, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty showing on the...
Category: Life Overseas
How to Make Your Table Holy Ground
The train would roll into town in the wee hours of the morning. After a summer away, we were, with a sense of both relief and exhaustion, returning home. Home...
I Have Listened to Your Stories
I have listened to your stories. I have cried with you, laughed with you, and hurt with you. I have reminisced with you and celebrated with you....
6 Ways to Make Sabbath a Reality for Ministry Leaders
Finding the middle place in the dim room between round tables draped in white, I push high heels into the carpet under a ceiling of twinkle lights and speak to...
Choosing Openness
I sat quietly on the couch as the conversation between the other young adults swirled around me. She did everything right. I didn’t want to pray or read my Bible...
When Ordinary is Extraordinary
Vacuums, Sponges and Mops, Oh My. We're all women here. More than likely, we are well-acquainted with these tools (of torture). In fact, while in...
Mental Illness Shows No Partiality
When I was fourteen, I faked it at the shrink's office so I could get a bipolar diagnosis like my friend Katie. Judge me if you must, but I had...
How a Train Bathroom Taught Me about My Identity
In one horrible moment, as the Chinese train rattled and rocked from side to side, with one false move, my friend dropped her passport right down into the train’s squatty...
5 Principles, 1 Practice, and a Calendar
Enough. If you pluck one word from this post, let it be enough. Enough fruitless striving, or striving an inordinate amount for a small yield. Let...
Reflections and Reorientation
Before we close the chapter of our lives called "2013," we want to take some time to reflect, to reorientate ourselves before we turn the page...
