When You Are Quietly Drowning

Drowning. It isn’t like the movies – no flailing arms, no loud screaming, no thrashing about. Instead, it is insidiously quiet. Drowning is a silent struggle, without wild movements to draw attention, and ends with the victim simply, finally slipping under...

Let Your Yes Be Yes

It’s almost Christmas, the most wonderful time of the year! So how is it that on one Christmas Day I ended up crying on the floor of an I-94 rest stop bathroom? I was the Goldilocks of Christmas until I learned to say “no.” This Christmas is Much Too Hard It seems...

Leading Your Family into 2015

There’s something about this time of year! As this year begins to come to a close, we reflect on the past year to remember all we are thankful for and look to the next for all that it will hold. Every year at about this time, I feel a tugging in my heart to seek God...

A Christmas Memory

She was such a tiny woman, even from my child-sized estimation. Josie had beautiful, ancient Native American skin that was more wrinkled than any other skin I had ever seen. She wore her long brown hair (sprinkled with gray) in braids, and wore glasses that were...