Creation care
Earth Day seems to have morphed into Earth Month, hasn't it? Well, as Earth Month draws to a close, I written a new article on how spending time in creation can draw us close to the [...]
Simple Compassion seminar
UPDATE: Here's a link to on-line registration for the Simple Compassion seminar, which will be held Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010, at Breakthrough Urban Ministries in Chicago. click here to go right to the registration page. [...]
Simple Compassion blog tour begins!
If you have a small group that is looking for a new book to read together in 2010, I'd like to humbly suggest you read Simple Compassion together. But don't take my word for it. [...]
Blog tour starts soon!
If you have a blog, I'd love to come "visit" it next week during our blog tour for Simple Compassion. To participate, just leave a comment here or get in touch via my website. Let [...]
Winners!
Thank you to all of you who left a comment. The generous folks at Zondervan are going to send all 13 of you who left a comment by today a free review copy of Simple [...]
Book giveaway!
My new book Simple Compassion is arriving in stores now! To celebrate, I'm giving away ten review copies here on the Deep Breathing for the Soul blog. Simple Compassion is a weekly devotional that will help [...]
Rest blog tour
A number of bloggers have recently posted reviews of my book Rest: Living in Sabbath Simplicity. Most have been very positive, which I appreciate. A few were honest about what they didn't like about the [...]
A Sanctuary in Time
There are certain places that feel sacred to me—the chapel where I was married, the lake at sunset, my garden when everything is in bloom. God made us so intricately. When we come into a [...]
Quotable??
Okay, readers. I need help finding attribution for two quotes. the first is from Frederick Buechner's Whistling in the Dark, "Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tear, it is well to pay the [...]
On being a writer…
I spoke at a women's breakfast at my church Saturday. My topic was Sabbath Simplicity. As usual, there were questions after my talk. And again, as usual, some of those questions had nothing to do [...]