No Words

I never thought I’d be typing these words, but here I am...as hard and as humbling as it is. For nearly 10 years, I’ve been in an abusive marriage. It’s been physically abusive a handful of times, but mostly emotional.  And to be perfectly honest, I think in many ways, emotional abuse is harder to

I have a podcast interview coming up this month in which the host would like to discuss my new book, The CULTURE Challenge.  As his protocol entails, he emailed me a list of questions he will ask me during the interview. Upon reading the email, I was immediately caught off guard by question number one.

I loved your 2004 hit song, “Jesus Walks.”  I didn’t know why and I didn’t know Jesus... but, there I was listening to it over and over again as a young, very lost teenage girl.  There was a particular passion, desperation and hope in your voice that resonated with me because I too, struggled under

Last week, our landlord had a roofing company come over to replace the roof.  The diligent roofers worked tirelessly in the over 100-degree weather.  After they finished and left, we noticed there was excess tar spilled down the awnings and all over the concrete patio out back.  Due to spending over 8 hours pressure washing

One day, about a year ago, I was in church and felt prompted to let one of the worship leaders know that God sees them.  I could feel His heart whispering, I see you…. I see you…. to that person, but the message wasn’t getting through to them.  Apparently, they felt invisible in that season,

Most nights, me or my husband will read to our two youngest children before bed.  Last night, our son chose an awesome glow-in-the-dark dinosaur book that Nana included in his Easter basket this year. The special glow pages consisted of different habitats.  Various dinosaurs, large and small were camouflaged within each scenery.  You had to

Our almost 4-year-old daughter, Harper is very wild, outgoing and silly (she takes after her father). However, she’s also a loving, gentle and surprisingly honest soul for her age.  We found a dollar once on the ground at Giant Eagle and after I asked the lady in front of us if it belonged to her,

My three-year-old daughter doesn’t like to go upstairs by herself, especially at night. If you’re already wondering if this is about how my house is haunted or something, don’t worry… it’s not. She just simply doesn’t feel comfortable and always asks us to stay near if she has to get something or has to go

I’m not one to watch the news often, just ask my husband. All this turmoil and pain in the world puts such a heavy burden on my heart and I just can't stand the weight of it. Plus, I feel like the news has a sly way of instilling additional fear in our minds. My

I’ve been feeling very overwhelmed lately. I try not to show it though since I don’t want to bring others down. Well, maybe my husband can tell. Maybe he’s even feeling the same way. We both just have a lot on our plates right now. There’s so much behind the scenes stuff that goes into