O – Ordinary Courage
Brené Brown, blogger, author, and speaker (including one of the most viewed TED talks of all time on vulnerability) says this about courage: Courage is a heart word. The root of the word courage is...
View ArticleP – Prophetic
I have no idea what prompted me to come up with the idea of covering my head (or my brother’s!) using my ‘blankie’ as a shayla one night when we were spending the night with my grandparents. We didn’t...
View ArticleW – With
Once I switched from teaching into full-time ministry, that meant three of the four members of my immediate family were all in full-time church ministry. In my most unusual family, none of the three...
View ArticleY – You Are Not Alone
Until about 10 months ago, I had, to put it mildly, an archaic cell phone. Everyone who knew me well loved to tease me, a notorious techy, about my lack of modern technology in the cell phone arena....
View ArticleA-Z Challenge
I really wasn’t sure if I’d make it through the A-Z Challenge this year. I had pre-written a number of the posts, and then tried to write ahead if I had a good day, knowing that my health wasn’t...
View ArticleOf Friendship, Faith, Fun, Forgiveness, and the Furtherance of an Addiction...
I knew of my friend long before I knew her personally. Truth be told, she’d say the same of me. The reasons behind both, however, were entirely different. Though we all have a story that is unique, her...
View ArticleOf Friendship, Faith, Fun, Forgiveness, and the Furtherance of an Addiction...
Part 1 posted here Fun… …ascertaining the fine art line between managing to be both snarky and sympathetic, and sassy and sincere. …discovering others of the rare breed of people that would find a...
View ArticleYou Are Good!
Over the last several months much talk has taken place online and in the blogging community about how we view ourselves. From letters being written to themselves at a younger age, to the Dove Real...
View ArticleA New Perspective
Munich is a place I have come to love for reasons far beyond the fact that I have dear friends living there. It’s actually one of the cities overseas I feel most comfortable in and that I’ve spent...
View ArticleThis Round World – (in)Courage
The roads made an instant impression on me when I first arrived in Africa. From cars driving at night without headlights on the way home from the airport in Nairobi, to helplessly passing by accident...
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