APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  The word friend has become muddy during the last 10 to 20 years. As defined in the Oxford language Dictionary, a friend used to be someone we had interest in common with or a shared history apart from...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  I heard the alarm go off from the kitchen as I prepared breakfast before the boys left for school, but there was no movement from the occupant of the second door on the left down the hall. I hadn't...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  Do you ever get overwhelmed by the size of the task in front of you? I certainly do. When I began writing my devotional A Little Goes a Long Way, I stared at the blank page and blinking cursor, thinking to...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  While I watched stretch marks creep across my belly, people watched O.J. Simpson race across Southern California. The news included the words "Ethnic cleansing" and "genocide" and the images to prove it,...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  When my daughter was just over a year old, we visited my parents at their house out in the country. I sat back on the porch and watched my parents blow bubbles with my little girl. Instead of watching for...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  As I write, what used to be a house full of children feels a bit quiet. Our children are all busy pursuing their own lives, and while we're so happy to watch them soar, I can't lie, my mama heart is...