I had wanted to be spending that money on my honeymoon, not on a trip by myself, but now that...

Perhaps if you’re like me, you spend time each day waiting for what is to come. Sometimes the anticipation fills...

She’s so articulate! I marveled as I sat through the class. Quickly, however, my admiration devolved into comparison—then gave way...

For a couple of years, I was reluctant to add smart devices to my home. I scoffed thinking, Why do...

As a freshman in high school, I strutted to my locker each morning with a large caramel frappucino, a full...

“Behold our God, to whom we looked to save us! This is the LORD for whom we looked; let us...

From the time I was a little girl, I had an innate sense of justice, when things were right or...

I wasn’t casting a net into the sea or mending my nets; I was a sophomore in college running laps...

Advent: a season of already, but not yet. A time of preparing for what we know has already happened. A...

The waves lapped on the rocky beach as my children waded into the clear mountain lake. As I sat reading...

My shoulders ached as I gathered up the toys and books scattered across the living room floor. Knots had settled...

The sun had not even risen yet and I was already rolling my eyes. I am never less patient than...

I sit out side of my doorsteps in the cool night and look up at the sky, and I would...

“Who wants to go to Heaven?!” The priest shouted enthusiastically to me and about two hundred other teenagers present at...

We were newly married and brand-new parents, too. Our little girl, just three months old, lay in the PICU hospital...

“No! Don’t . . .” my words hung in the air as a tiny hand dragged the basket across the...

"The only thing that could make our situation weirder is if my parents got divorced again," I half-joked to a...