I sit in my dining room, surrounded by Christmas lights and decor, listening to holiday tunes while addressing this year’s holiday cards. I smile as different names pop up on my list and memories of my relationship with that person flood my mind. The scene is picturesque and my heart happy. I mentally double-check my … More Holiday Cards & Deep Thoughts
When we cracked the doors of our dark little world open, we were engulfed by brilliant, vibrant colors. Only then did we recogize the black-and-white we had limited ourselves to. … More “Capital C” Church: The Great and Powerful Oz
I’m on a journey like no other. It’s not the journey I would have chosen — wouldn’t even have made my Top 10, truth be told. Frankly, had anyone ever suggested to me two short years ago that THIS would be my path in life, I’d have probably vehemently shaken my head, while inwardly giving … More My Road
This is the excerpt for your very first post. … More Writing is My … Processing
What kind of country do you want to live in? A free country, you say? How committed to that concept are you? Are you willing to vote against laws that uphold your own personal beliefs but would infringe on the rights of others? Are you willing to speak up on behalf of actual freedom, even … More Steps and Necks
What makes us great isn’t agreement, isn’t conformity, isn’t unity. It’s diversity. The ability and right to disagree. To fight for better.
Instead of seeing differing views as a problem to be fixed, we need to see it as our greatest strength. … More Making America Great: Not a WHEN, But a What
I was a hyper Christian once. Let me explain. At the peak of my uber-Christianity, I was at the church building no less than four times per week, and was working on church stuff from home two or three of the other days. My typical week looked like this: Sunday morning Bible class and fellowship, … More And a Bag of Chips
I am a better Christ follower now than I was in 2014. I am a better Mom. A better Wife. A better Friend. A better PERSON. And in the bastardized words of Larry the Cable Guy, that there’s some good fruit, I don’t care who you are. … More Huggin’ and Happy
When my daughter was three, we were sitting in the car at the gas pump one day, while my husband was outside, taking care of gasoline business. My precocious child was asking me questions that made my head spin: “Mommy, is God a body? What does He look like?” “Why not?” “Mommy, can we see … More Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
For all of my life, I had self-labeled as a conservative Christian Republican. Turns out, God didn’t want me there. When He took me on this journey into the then-foreign-to-me LGBTQ world, He not only opened up my heart to those hurting people, but to ALL hurting people. Which suddenly made me not only a “bleeding heart” but embarrassed that I ever used the phrase “bleeding heart” in a negative way. Isn’t that a core tenant of Christianity? Compassion for others? For the poor? For foreigners (aka immigrants)? Widows? Orphans? Elderly? Sick? Jesus was the very embodiment of bleeding heart. … More Stranger in a Strange Land
When did we become so worried about what other people look like? What they do? I don’t mean if someone else is about to swallow a bottle of pills, or bomb a local event or the like (not taking these topics lightly, I assure you). I mean things that don’t really hurt anyone. Things like … More Color My World
My Road From Damascus 