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 …
Category: Thoughts
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, …
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 …
It Only Gets Worse: Hope for Hopeless Times
Just wait—it only gets worse. It’s a statement I’ve heard many times. I first remember hearing it when I became engaged. Always spoken by an unhappily married person, the comment usually went something like this: “You’re happy now, but give it a year or two. It only gets worse.” The comment became much more frequent, …
“I’ve Always Been Angry. That’s Just the Way I Am.”
“I’ve Always Been Angry. That’s Just the Way I Am.” written by Angela Jeffcott You hear a crash from somewhere in the house followed by a suspicious silence. You race toward the sound and find a vase you rarely use smashed on the floor. Your guilty looking children are crouched nearby with a ball. Despite …
Everybody Has Thoughts: lessons from my children
She was an older woman. Not very friendly looking at first glance. I drill the “don’t talk to strangers” lesson into my children but have also told them that it’s fine to talk if Mommy is right there with them. So they talked with her. When they weren’t around, she commented, “I never knew I …