Sing Loud
It’s rebellious, in a way, to choose joy, to choose to dance, to choose to love your life. It’s much easier and much more common to be miserable. But I…
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Create
Do something creative every day, even if you work in a cubicle, even if you have a newborn, even if someone told you a long time ago that you’re not…
Meta-Happy
There are moments when I feel, suddenly, lucky and thankful and shocked at how happy I am. I have called this the hardest season in my adult life, which it…
Just Past the Curse
When you can invest yourself deeply and unremittingly in the life that surrounds you instead of declaring yourself out of the game once and for all, because what’s happened to…
Tragedy to Whom?
But the only person who decided my life had turned to dust was me. The only person who is still deeply troubled about what I’ve lost, even in the face…
What We Call Curses
I know that it seemed like God was being cruel that year…. But he was not. What I know now is that his kindness burns through even the deepest betrayals…
Why Forgive?
And I think if we went to court, some strange friendship court where you can get a ruling about these things, I think I would win, still, even after all…
Pennies on the Path
Each one of our lives is shot through, threaded in and out with God’s provision, his grace, his protection, but on the average day, we notice it about as much…
This Is It
But this is what I’m finding, in glimpses and flashes: this is it. This is it, in the best possible way. That thing I’m waiting for, that adventure, that movie-score-worthy…
Choose to Celebrate
Today, humble Today, presents itself to us with all the ceremony and bling of a glittering diamond ring. Wear me, it says. Wear me out. Love me, dive into me,…