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What It Really Means to Be Strong

What It Really Means to Be Strong

Our culture really values people who are strong — especially when that strength is in women. I mean, don’t we all long to be seen as a strong person, someone who can handle whatever life throws at us and make it through — no matter how difficult the...
To Stay in a Moment

To Stay in a Moment

This weekend, I rewatched The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. It’s a movie about a guy who daydreams. A lot. His daydreams bring him into a world where he’s a hero. An adventurer. A passionate artist. Someone who isn’t afraid of anything. At one point...
The Art of Hoping

The Art of Hoping

I’m not a glass-half-empty kind of person. In general, I tend to be cautiously optimistic. Except when it comes to myself. You see, even though I’ve had good things happen to me before, I have this weird voice somewhere in the back of my mind. This voice...
The Lies We Believe

The Lies We Believe

Yesterday my husband taught a lesson in our Sunday School class. It was about the passage in Matthew 6 that talks about worry — and how we shouldn’t do it. There were a lot of great points made by him and others, but one thing he had written in his...