Friends! Welcome back to another month of Share Four Somethings, hosted by my friend and fellow podcaster Heather Gerwing. I confess, I’ve struggled a bit with the two new categories for 2022, Something Braved and Something Achieved, but I think I’m beginning to settle into them. At first, they felt like big categories–like whatever I…
When I lived in Memphis, it seemed like spring arrived overnight. One morning, after weeks of drenching rain, I’d wake to find the world shrouded in a green mist, or so it seemed. Spring also arrived with a firmness: “I’m here. Enjoy me.” And then, in a month or so, the heat arrived, and that…
Do you remember the last time you said to someone, “I’m worried about you”? How did they respond? How did they look? What about the last time someone else said these words to you? How did you feel? What was your gut-level response? When a family member said this to me recently, it made me…
A friend called recently to tell me she’s going through a difficult divorce. Everything she thought she had, she said, has crumbled around her. Her pastor husband confessed to twenty-plus years of infidelity, but only after being found out and confronted by the church. We talked at length about healing after divorce, about recovering one’s…
Have you ever quit a job, left a school, abandoned a group of any kind simply because you couldn’t bear to spend one more day in an environment that didn’t fit you? Have you ever turned your back on a relationship because of divergent values? Walked away from a conversation out of protest? And what…
“By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.” (Genesis 3:19 NIV) In Ephesians, Paul writes, “As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins . . . But because…