What To Do About All This Pain?

What To Do About All This Pain?

I love this photo. I took it outside a church in Bethlehem in Palestine last April, and it reminds me that God is God of all people, not just ones that write like we do and talk like we do and live like we do. It also reminds me that there are hurting people...
Need Hope? Jump Into the Flow

Need Hope? Jump Into the Flow

“You nervous?” Todd asked me, handing me my wetsuit. “Nervous? Why should I be nervous?” I asked. I’d gone whitewater rafting several times before and it was no big deal. Besides, I’d grown up around water- if spending lazy summers...
Red, White, and Blue — and the Gospel Too

Red, White, and Blue — and the Gospel Too

Have you met my friend and former neighbor in France, Madame Mallet? That’s her on the left. If you read French by Heart, you may remember what a hilarious, complicated character and friend she was to me and my family. This pic was taken during a visit a couple...
A Different Kind of Christmas this Year

A Different Kind of Christmas this Year

“It’s going to be a different kind of Christmas this year,” she said, smoothing the covers of her twin bed. As we visited, I wondered how it felt to go back to a twin, now, in her old age. Now, with no one else’s legs to bump against at...