Jesus didn't try to hide the truth from His disciples when He said, "In this world you will have troubles." One common thread throughout history is that life has never been perfectly free from difficult moments for any generation. I've questioned God many times in...

The Lord will fight for you; you need only be still.  Exodus 14:14 Whatever you're facing, God faces it with you. However you're feeling, God understands. No matter the situation, God is right there too. He is with you. He loves you. He understands. He cares. He is...

I woke up this morning with several friends on my mind. One of my  dear high school friends faced the unexpected loss of her sister this past Friday. Carol and her mom and dad, along with her sister's children, will attempt to step back into a world today that will...

Four years ago on the Saturday following Thanksgiving, we gathered around Nick's frail body to say "good bye" and witnessed the passing of Nick from this life to the next. So much has happened in the last four years. Erich and Evan both graduated from college. Erich...

In this world we are usually going to be able to look around and see someone who has it a little easier, someone who seems to have at least one less thing to worry about, someone who appears to "have it all." But if we really open our eyes, we are going to see a whole...

Evan, if I could hop on a plane this morning, I would! I'd fly straight to LA and take a taxi right to your apartment! And I'd hug you and tell you just how much you are loved by me and by your dad and by all of your family. But since I can't, I found a few pictures...

I never really thought I needed a "support group," but I've learned there is something very special and healing about a community of people who share the same struggle. I am more of a "reader" than a "writer" in the online support group I belong to for parents who...

She was only five, but she spoke to me in the midst of a classroom full of kindergartners trying to finish a sequencing task. As one child cried because she didn't know how to use scissors, this particular, brown-eyed, mussed-up-haired girl looked up and said, "My...

I just read Saturday in my chronological Bible about Paul's conversion on the road to Damascus. I read about him seeing the bright light and then being blinded for three days. I read about how God used this terrifying moment to change something inside of him. And from...

We've all been there, haven't we? In those moments in life that cause us to question just about everything we do and are. Why is this happening? How am I suppose to handle this? What caused this in the first place? Monday I found myself asking all of these questions...