• When the Light Goes Dim

    Have you ever had a season where it felt like the lights were dim on the inside? Where there is a passing car now and then, only to remind you that life is still…

  • Sunny Sarasota

    February is known as the shortest month of the year, so why does it feel like the longest, most emotionally taxing month of the year to those of us who experience winter? February is…

  • “Old Pine” & The Memories In Between

    Have you ever had nostalgia hit so hard you swear you could taste it? I feel that when I listen to Ben Howard’s “Old Pine,” especially when it’s bone cold outside. “Old Pine” brings…

  • Fiction, I’ve missed you. Like, a lot.

    Before last week, I had not finished a book from cover to last sentence in well over six months. I have this odd faithfulness to my semesters … reading anything other than my material…

  • Divided Differences

    In the heaviness of all that has happened in Paris, France, it is only natural that our physiological reaction be fight-or-flight. How is it that another mundane day rounds a corner to find terrorism…

  • Through and Through

    “There is a shift in the landscape of Heaven happening right now.”  My pastor said these words today as people stood to confess their belief in and commitment to the life Jesus. The power in…

  • Farewell, 2014

    Well, 2015 is truly here. I cannot believe that it has already been a full year. It is this kind of belief that is the old adage we all grew up hearing, but now…

  • Some Thoughts on Kim

    I actually had a finished blog ready to post. I then decided that writing out of anger sounded judgmental and, really, probably was judgmental. The last thing I want to feel towards Kim Kardashian-West…

  • Beyond the Valley

    I would like to take a moment and, in full discretion, admit that I am a human being. There are times when I fully embrace all of my faults and weaknesses and boldly declare…