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Recently, I sat with someone in the midst of a difficult trial. She was overwhelmed by sorrow, feeling desolate, keenly aware of the brokenness of life, every sorrow a scar running through the length of it. Tears were her daily bread, every morning a struggle as to how to go on. I could sense her despair as she considered the state of her circumstances. My friend’s struggle was familiar to me. I had often sat in a puddle of weariness, pouring out my suffering through unabated

I had never really thought of myself as a cowgirl until I stood beside a pen with more than a dozen cows and calves being instructed to...

We were preparing for our daughter’s wedding when she called me one day in a slight panic, “Mom, I have no pictures of myself from 2009-2011! What happened?” “What happened” was, I was in the “desert years”- both literally and spiritually. We had moved away from everyone we knew to live in the desert of West Texas. Honestly, I tried not to think of those years as they were the years my dad was dying, the years I started having unexplained abdominal pain, the years our family

It was not by choice that my husband and I first turned down an unknown path into the creek on our ranch, exploring the swelling caused...

Romans 3 seems a strange place to be meditating during the Christmas season, I know, but it is where I found myself the other morning, as...

Someone once said that we are all in the middle of a story. Sometimes it’s hard to imagine you’re actually in the right story, like maybe...

What do you do when God feels absent? When the silence is so loud it drowns out the voice in your head that is telling you to hold on to...

“For great is your steadfast love toward me; you have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol” (Ps.86:13). Sometimes we forget who we...

I struggle every day. Just the other morning, I found myself in a state of disenchantment, struggling to see the path before me, a path I...