Just got back quick weekend trip to Texas for a family wedding, and was excited to see that my newest book, Deeply Loved, is available on amazon.com today. Don't you just love the cover? Deeply [...]
The rain settles in gentle, gurgles in the downspout outside the window. Today I'm thankful for my neighborhood, and particularly, my neighbors. To live my faith, for me, is less about hours logged at church [...]
Day 2 (Last week, I wrote about cairns, the small piles of rock used to mark hiking trails. The cairns provided a metaphor for spiritual truth, and also gave me a clear picture of some [...]
My daughter and I plunge into the shallow flowing stream, walking sticks in hand. After a one mile walk up a relatively easy paved path, we reach the trail head for the Narrows, a canyon in [...]
There's something about a bookstore. The smell of ink, paper, and coffee. The landscape of books: piled on tables, lining shelves. The quiet hum of people talking, or just turning pages. When you buy a [...]
So last weekend, Bill Hybels tells our congregation, The Global Leadership Summit will be here at Willow this week, and reminds us to extend hospitality, to be friendly to our guests, strike up conversation. And [...]
I stand on the bow of the sailboat and shove hard against the pier piling. Our small boat slowly spins away from the dock and I turn and begin raising the sail as my husband [...]
Welcome to August, a month that languishes--or perhaps ought to, were it not filled with back-to-school busy-ness. These are dog days, warm and slow--or so we wish. A time to just relax, enjoy long days. [...]
How many of us looked at the calendar this week and cried, "What? It's almost August?? How did that happen? summer is flying by!" So often we think of summer as a slower time. There [...]
It's an odd feeling, reading words you've written. The process of writing a book takes long enough that you sometimes forget what you've written. After several months on the editor's desk, I received my edited [...]