A Chapel Message I Remember I was privileged to attend a Christian university where I sat under hundreds of chapel messages. Although I don’t remember the content of each message, some still stick in my foggy brain almost two decades later. In one of these memorable messages, the speaker challenged us with these words: You …
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You’ll Never Be Content Until…
When my husband and I were trying to buy our first home, the world was in the mess of a pandemic, and I was navigating remote schooling for my children, I wrote these words in my journal: I want to cultivate contentment in the unfinished. As I read those words four years after writing them, …
When a Pastor’s Wife Doesn’t Want to Go to Church
Several years ago, I contracted a sickness that required me to quarantine. This meant missing church for two Sundays in a row. I admit: the thought was exciting to me. Two Sundays in a row where I could sit on my sofa, stay in my pajamas if I wanted, and watch the livestream of my …
A Thank You to My Church Family
5 years into the New Hampshire life...
my precious church deserves a thank you,
and my faithful God deserves all the credit.
Weary One, Take Heart
The events in your life are for a glorious purpose:
to make you holy like your Savior and beloved brother, Jesus.
Pain is Your Megaphone
Pain is not only God's megaphone to us; it is our megaphone to the world.
5 Questions to Ask Yourself in 2022
I love taking time to reflect, and there’s no better built-in time for reflection than at the turning of a new year. Here are 5 questions I’m asking myself in 2022 that are leading me to reflect on God’s goodness and the work he’s doing in my life. As you ask yourself these questions, remember …
From Worry to Gratefulness
The article below was written for my local newspaper, The Concord Monitor. Dread I used to dread fall. If I lived in some run-of-the-mill part of the country, you might shrug your shoulders or even agree with me. But how can a person live in New Hampshire and dread fall at the same time? Why …