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“Surely, this is not God’s will for me.” It was a statement born out of an extreme trial, a thought that came back over and over again, bouncing off the pain, like a relentless pinball machine. As my friend said it, I could hear the weariness in her voice. It was an echo that reverberated through my own heart, through the years of past difficulties and the long moments of present hurts. Sometimes it felt like God was absent in my pain. As we cope with the traumatic, the une

“A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.” Chinese Proverb I found my mind wandering in church on Sunday. The song was “How Deep the Father’s Love for Us,” and I started out singing it with all my attention given to the sweetness of that everlasting truth, “And wounds which mar the chosen one bring many sons to glory.” Then I became aware of my own wounds as I stood there, singing, and the wounds of those all around me. Two rows away was

“I just never expected my life to be this way.” It is a common thought, sometimes voiced in the counseling room, between friends, or in a...

Suffering has a way of heaving you beyond the shallows of life where your faith tends to feel ankle-deep. It casts you out into the fathomless depths of God, a place where Jesus is the only One who can touch bottom." Joni Eareckson Tada 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 by a massive rainstorm. Indeed, it was out of necessity that we traversed that creek the first time, four w

I was minding my own business yesterday when a near concussion from a frozen chicken put everything into perspective. I had my head in...

Today would have been our Shiloh’s 23rd birthday. Birthdays are hard. I always want the world to stop and remember. Maybe take a moment...

“The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved...

Pain is an overwhelming presence. I sat in my bed recently, trying to think, trying to pray, trying to get past the pain. I always think...