As a little girl who had lived all my short life in Washington state, I had no knowledge of how things were in the south. I didn’t realize, for example, that fishing is not an optional activity for Oklahomans. Apparently, even new, gangly-legged transplants are expected to pole-up and do their part.  So shortly after our [...]

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She sits close to me tonight. Closer than usual. Sometimes, on some Wednesday nights, I can tell her mind is elsewhere. Those times, she’s not enclosed within the four walls of this church. She’s running free. But tonight she leans in close. It’s not that she’s snuggling–which she also does sometimes–it’s more that she’s just [...]

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If Jesus had not left the beauty of heaven, where He was adored and worshiped as God, and entered humanity through a dark, cold cave of obscurity, if He had not endured betrayal by the ones He loved most, and stood silently while mere humans plucked out His beard and spat on His face, and [...]

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  Oh, how I love spring. How can you not? I don’t care where you live, spring looks like the earth yawning and stretching its arms. It smells like hope, and new beginnings, and the promise of soon-to-be-cut grass. It tastes like a long-awaited picnic. It feels like bright yellow fluff. It sounds like the [...]

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  I love that my husband doesn’t argue with me when I ask for things. This morning, while I was sipping coffee and correcting Tera’s math, he slipped me a folded sheet of paper. “Happy Valentine’s Day.” In the span of time that it took for me to reach for and take and open that [...]

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