After seeing buds on trees this morning, I’m thinking of what Heaven must be like. I wonder if it’s the first day of spring every single day there. Where trees are beginning their bloom…

I am not sure what is to be grieved more: the lack of writing because of the lack of inspiration or the lack of writing when inspiration hits? What I have come to learn…

I am currently taking a Principles and Practices in Substance Abuse Counseling class, and it hasn’t exactly been awe-inspiring or helped maintain the passion I once had for this field. But something last night…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

“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…