Ever had someone cuss you out in a nonstop blue streak of the worst possible names? I have. I tell you, teachers put up with a lot. When...

I grew up in a church-going family, but Sunday meant one thing for me: doughnuts. Sunday was a big production. My sister and I got...

I was having such a great time with friends at a book convention. Each day was spent strolling the miles of aisles looking at new book...

My dad was brilliant and kind. He once said, “There should just be one law: Be nice.” Doesn’t that make sense? If we made all our...

Jesus included everyone in the conversation. He spoke with a Samaritan woman–who wasn’t part of the Jewish faith in-crowd, being half-Jew...

Scripture says that God will reign over the earth. When I think about figurehead kings and queens around the world, I wonder how others...

As a board member of The Sierra Schools Foundation, I recently helped coordinate efforts to bring social-emotional training to our small...

How can we figure out God’s calling on our lives? Earlier this week I wrote about the three times God laid a call on my life. Quickly...

Yesterday I shared the first of three calls I know God put on my life. The first was this: “I want you to write for me” in 1986. Three...

What could a calling look like in your life? I know God has opened a calling for me at least three times. The first was to writing. The...

We drove to church yesterday, with a black wall to our right half of the way to Reno. Wildfires licked up just about every spot of green...

I don’t know another time when I’ve felt I’ve lived just about every line of this famous piece of poetry written by King Solomon from...

I’ve been near-sighted since the sixth grade. That was not a good year. My school had a fire, so I had to walk even farther to another...

Addicted to doing? Addicted to checking things off your list? I’m raising my hand. I own all that. Because I’m goal-oriented and...

Years ago when I started prayerwalking, God showed me that wherever I am, there’s a need for prayer . . . so I began opening up my eyes...

“Take care,” she said at the end of our phone call. It was an everyday sort of remark, one you usually don’t think about . . . but that...

What’s your favorite kind of party? Mine must be a Pity Party, because that’s the one I most often find myself attending. What’s so...

How do we push through the mountain of tasks that seem impossible? We can learn a lot from Hebrews 12. 1. Look to Jesus. First, we can...

“Pray without ceasing.” Oh, this verse used to just make me mad. I mean, what was Paul thinking? Pray all day? How could I possibly do...

Do you believe in breakthrough? I do. Years ago I was laid off from my teaching job a half hour from our home in the Sierra Valley–due to...