Betrayed Days, Redeemed Days

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May I please rewind to a time when I didn’t know the word “betrayed”? Betrayed is such a bad-tasting word. Those letters leaves an acrid taste in my mouth, like smoke after a fire. The flames may be gone, yes, but the awful ashes remain. I wish betrayed meant what the little girl at the front of the church last Sunday thought it meant. When the leader telling the children a story asked if anyone knew the meaning of betrayed, the pigtailed pixie mentioned carrying food on a tray. Be-trayed. If only that were truly the meaning, but I know better. After…

Cultivating a Relationship with Your Teen

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  Even though I feel a sense of confidence about what my tween and teen daughters are up to when they are out of my sight, the reality is that I may not know as much as I think I do. I’ve witnessed too much in all my years of mentoring to be naive about good girls never making bad choices and honorable boys avoiding the slippery slopes. They don’t mean to do it. But in a moment of flesh-dominating-thinking, they lose their grip on reality and fall into the temptations coming upon them — pressure to fit in, conform,…

Loving the Locks God Gave You

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A while back, a few of my girlfriends and I found ourselves cracking up as we talked about Scriptures, reflecting on that how it says that {gray} hair is a crown of glory (Proverbs 16:31). We kind of focused in on the “hair” part, as it seems like many girls like us can be pretty focused on their hair.  We may have a perfect outfit and flawless makeup, yet we still feel drab when our unruly hair takes on a life of its own. I have found that I usually can’t control my hair… it controls me. This summer, I…

{download} Summer Survival

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Don’t simply survive summer! Instead, set goals for your personal, emotional, and spiritual life, so that your summer vacation leaves you changed for the better without regretting days vanished into nothingness.

New Beginnings: A Mother’s Prayer

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It is a new day, a new beginning. We praise You, Father, for the work You do in us each day, each moment. Your breath, your will, your Word, ushers Life. We cannot turn away.  Father, we praise You, always, for stillness. Help us to praise You for noise. Father, we praise You for quiet, for calmness. Help us to praise You for chaos, for turbulence we can’t control. Father, we praise You for Creation––your language of beauty and dancing and music and love sung out. Help us to praise You for life admist darkness, turning everything into light. Father, we praise…

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