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...

I was in a state of confusion years ago when I was laid off from my teaching job. The school district on the other side of my valley had...

Need a confidence builder? I had absolutely no confidence as a young person. I didn’t try out for the high school choir, because you had...

It’s interesting to me that the prophet Jeremiah must have been a young man when God called him to be his spokesman. This was not a call...

I was beginning to shake. It was cold lying on that gurney in the bowels of the Reno hospital surgical facility. Within minutes I was...

Where are your comfort zone places? The same meal at the same restaurant? The same doctor? The same daily routines? I like my comfort...

I never felt special. I wasn’t the smartest kid in the class–there were always others smarter than I. I wasn’t the most athletic. The one...

How hard is it to walk into a room knowing the people have gossiped lies about you or your family? It is hard. How hard is it to smile...

I always believed in God–Father, Son, and Spirit. I was raised in the church and could recite prayers. But I didn’t know I could have a...