The Royal Spotlight

Your life is one big event full of smaller events.  It falls onto the calendar of history… His Story.  Think of all the events you’ve been to in your lifetime.  Birthday parties, weddings, funerals, concerts, festivals, backyard barbecues, pool parties, garden shows, monster truck rallies, ball games, graduations, retirements… What has made each event, well, event worthy?  The setting? Sometimes.  … Read More

Which Drum are You Supposed to Beat?

Two Saturdays before Easter this year, my husband and I went to an outreach event at the home of a woman I know from my Bible Study.  Her name is Beth.  She is a widow.  She doesn’t let that hinder her from doing huge things.  The truth is, her season of life has opened up large opportunities to reach beyond … Read More

Walking From Peace to Peace

Are you going through something right now and feel like you’re rocking back and forth with fear, anxiety, butterflies, and maybe a touch or two of depression? You aren’t alone.  I think even the most “well-kept-together” of us fall into that category.  And not just once.  It happens time and time again.  We all have a choice when those dreaded … Read More

Water, Water, Everywhere But Not a Drop to Drink

Well, I failed.  I had the date for “World Water Day” in my mind as March 28th.  It was in fact, March 22nd, and that day has passed.  I’ve been mulling it over in my mind and with sparse internet during the day, I frankly thought I had more time.  But do you know what? The world water crisis isn’t … Read More

To the Strained People of the World

How are your muscles today? Aching a bit from strain?  What has you straining? Is it from grinding your teeth at night because that’s how your body inadvertently reacts to stress even as you sleep? Is it from carrying that very attached baby of yours everywhere you go even as you work? Is it from hunching over mounds of paperwork as … Read More

Shaken, But Not Stirred.

A few days ago, I was in Brooklyn, New York sitting in the auditorium of one of the most illustrious churches in the country- The Brooklyn Tabernacle.  Words cannot properly describe how meaningful that service was to me, just two days after I turned 30.  But I will tell you that it was right up there with the Kenyan worship … Read More

10 Things I Learned in my 20’s

Well, it’s finally here: the dreaded last day of my 20’s.  As much as I would like to deem tomorrow “The 2nd Annual Anniversary of My 29th Birthday”, I can’t.  When the clock moves into the 2:00AM hour, while I sleep, I will turn 30.  (I think I need a piece of chocolate.) As hard as the idea of starting … Read More

Writing on the Walls

Did you ever make a time capsule as a kid? I remember doing one at my school.  I don’t remember anything that went into it or when it was to be opened, but I remember thinking about how awesome it would be for someone to find it some day.  Now that I’m a grown-up, I live in an old Virginian … Read More

The Art of Writing a Letter

I’ve written all sorts of letters throughout my life.  Letters to my parents from camp, postcards with short letters to my grandparents from vacations, entries in my diaries, cards filled with letters of encouragement to those having a bad day or suffering in a particular way, emails with updates on life with pen pals and old friends, letters of complaint … Read More