Never give up

Kaylee clung to the 66-foot climbing wall, about 1/3 of the way up. I could see the teenager from my youth group was tired. “Okay, I’m done. I can’t go any further. Let me down.” “No. You can do this. I’ll let you rest, but...

God’s not dead

  It’s heating up here in the Ozarks. (We skipped spring and went straight to summer, as did most of the country!) A couple days ago, my daycare kiddos and I were hanging out in the shade in the backyard, trying to beat the heat. We discussed our favorite...

God is good all the time

No one ever told me it would be this hard. Being a mother, I mean. No, the hardest thing wasn’t the labor and delivery. (Although that wasn’t exactly a walk in the park.) Or the seemingly endless nights of little sleep and crazy days of chasing toddlers....

It’s okay to ask why

  It’s been a rough couple of months for many of my readers. We’ve prayed for babies as they go under the surgeon’s knife, dread cutting into the hearts of mothers and fathers as they leave their precious children in operating rooms. We’ve...

Justice will prevail

It started innocently enough. Warm spring sunshine filtered through the newly-unfurled leaves in my daycare backyard. Children unleashed their pent-up energy, zigzagging across the grass. Two of my little girls played on the swings in the playground. Back and forth,...

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