The Spirit of Christmas Lives On (how to keep your candles burning for the New Year) This Christmas post from last year rings even truer this year. As we rest, reflect, and renew our focus on the year ahead, enjoy a quiet read… “Christmas is over, baby,” I said nonchalantly as I buckled little Sam into his car seat, his legs dangling long. “It’s time to go back to school.” “Christmas […] Read More when you don’t like what you see in the mirror (looking for what you cannot see) “I don’t even want to look at myself,” she said, “I hate what I see.” I I received letters from two ice skaters last week. The first one suddenly disappeared from her sorority house due to bulimia. Rachel was the tiniest girl in the house, but her voice sounded big when she wrote to me: “When I finally graduated […] Read More Beautiful Lie #2: You are Not What You See in the Mirror (can someone help a girl out here?) We’ve got girls wanting to retouch their thighs … and their eyes … and it’s all based on lies. If there is one chapter I hope women read from my books, it is Beautiful Lies, The Second Lie: You Are What You See in the Mirror. I won’t attempt to write it better than I did […] Read More Beautiful Truth #1: You are God’s Beloved (how to hold onto your crown when it falls off) There must be a formula for being a great child of God, for wearing the crown well, for reflecting His goodness near and far. I just don’t know it yet. But this I do know: “How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we shall be called children of God, and that […] Read More Beautiful Lie #1: Man is not your Mirror (and the better truth that sets us free) When I decided to do Beautiful Lies on Facebook live, we couldn’t have guessed our son’s childhood friend would die tragically in the first week. As the Word says, “Man is but a breath; his days are like a fleeting shadow” (James 4:14). The painful truth is that people we love will be here one […] Read More |