It’s strange, waking up one day and realizing you are just a step or two away from realizing the biggest goal of your life to date. Overwhelming. Surreal. That was me this morning. For eight months, I’ve been working on a novel. It will be finished in another month or so – approximately the amount…
You may remember me writing about how we’ve been church-homeless for going on four years, and how difficult it can be to find a church that feels like the right fit. Sometimes, God makes it really clear that you’re supposed to be part of a certain church during a certain season. Other times, he can…
Jen Hatmaker wrote yesterday about missing her actual life, meaning her life at home with her people, the ones she knows intimately, lives with, sees face to face in the everyday, rather than her life as a traveling speaker and an online presence who connects with people via the Internet. Her words resonated with me,…
During my company’s quarterly sales conference back in November, the fiction publisher said something that struck me hard, and which has stayed with me ever since. Her comment was in relation to a book she was presenting, and I can’t remember its title now, but I won’t soon forget her words: “We learn the most…
I love this trend in the blogging world of choosing a word to focus on throughout the year, and I’m hopping on the bandwagon for 2014. As I’ve mulled over what I want 2014 to look like, a few different words keep coming to mind. So I’ve chosen three words, not just one, to be…
This is a belated Merry Christmas, because we’ve spent the past five days without electricity, television, or the internet. It was, in hindsight, a good thing. A blessing. Out of necessity, our plans had to change, Christmas was reconfigured a bit, and all our expectations flew out the window as a large part of Michigan…