Finding Hope in Loneliness

Finding Hope in Loneliness

She is the elderly woman in the polyester suit sitting alone in the church pew week after week or the frazzled young mother in the grocery aisle juggling a wailing infant and impatient toddler. She might be the middle-aged divorcee’ who envies every couple in a...
Finding Hope in Loneliness

Permission to be You

I was such a people pleaser and in trying to be everything to everyone else, I have little idea of who I am.  Her words, full of regret and confusion, describe me only a few years ago. At times—even after years of seeking wise counsel and prayer—I still struggle with...
Not Just a Number

Not Just a Number

In a moment of clarity–or desperation–mom took things into her own hands.  She clipped, trimmed, and stood back to view her work.  There before her stood four little boys–each with a numeral cut into his hair.  Nobody would mistake number one for...