Walking Toward Heaven: Letting Life’s Tedium Point Us Toward Home

Here is a link to a guest blog I contributed to a series called, Homeward Bound, on Jennifer Wier’s beautiful site. Her site is dedicated to reminding us that a glorious heaven awaits us, and this should enable us to live in joy and hope. I wrote that it is tedium more than tragedy that […]

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The Misery of Comparison and the Joy of Collaboration

When my kids were little, I never was great at planning their birthday parties.  My daughter Bethany’s birthday is in early November, between Halloween and Thanksgiving, and it always snuck up on me. It still does. When Bethany was 4, I was in an especially busy phase of life—finishing grad school, doing a counseling internship, […]

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Captivity, Wilderness, & Promised Land

In January the Holy Spirit walked me through the book of Exodus and showed me many new insights. Now I’ve moved into Deuteronomy, and I’m fascinated to see how this book of Moses traces the same theme: Yahweh is present with us when we are in captivity, when we are in the wilderness, and when […]

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