APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  My friend Robin needed a rescue one day. She was walking home from class her senior year at Indiana University during the blizzard of the century. The odds were not in her favor as she set out uphill in...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  We don't know exactly what was happening in David's life when he wrote Psalm 13, but it's safe to assume he felt death was close and very real. Perhaps his emotions threatened to run away while he was...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  I make myself a cup of coffee and sit down in my big red chair. It's not even six in the morning. In the last week, I've slept a sum total of ten hours. I'm severely lacking and beginning to think sleep is...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  I made a commitment of faith when I was just nine years old. Wide-eyed and trembling in the cold baptismal waters, I nodded my head in agreement as the pastor of my small Baptist church asked me if I had...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  Mommy guilt can cause a weariness a nap won't fix. It weighs us down and wears us out. It turns perfectly normal moms into women who are convinced they could win the prize for the worst mom of the year....

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  Motherhood is hard physical labor, sweaty work, manual labor of the most intense kind because it requires more than just body. Turns out it's hard heart labor too. And when the work doesn't pay off, when...