U R Cared For (when you aren’t so sure…)

I always seem to be writing out of the wrestle. The moment I think I’m the only one feeling pinned to the mat breathless, along comes other girls who say they feel pinned […]

U R Doing the Hard Thing (and it’s the right thing)

This is not going to be fun, I think, as I prepare to have a hard conversation with one of our children. But the hard thing is the right thing, and […]

U R a Seed (how dying sprouts new life)

Baby Judah was born, died, and raised on the same day: A seed, sprouting to new life.  Bethany, the young mother you see here, posted this to her Facebook page: […]

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U R Hard Pressed but Not Crushed (when you are being squeezed)

“When you are in the vise grip,” Devi once told me, “and you are being squeezed … like a lemon, let it produce sweet juice in you – sweet lemonade, refreshing to […]

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U R my Beloved (looking through the lens of the Father’s eyes)

Writing a book takes at least a year.  Or a lifetime. Beautiful Lies took a lifetime of believing people measured my value.  Broken by the lie that “I was what […]

Choose Love

"Choose love," I could sense God telling me. "But Lord, I don’t feel …." "Choose love," He repeated in the quiet of my heart. "If you want to be like […]

Come to the Water

In a vacant hostel set amidst the snow-laden Black Forest, I read the Good News Bible for the first time in my life. I have not eaten anything for days, […]

An Unveiled Face

What do you look like without makeup? If you are a man, you would say — what you see is what you get! But if you are a woman, you […]

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