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All right, y'all, who watched The Chosen Christmas Special on Sunday? If you did, please accept my fist bump through your computer...

Sometimes I feel like a Lost Girl. Like I took a wrong turn at the second star on the right and ended up a thousand miles from Neverland,...

trodden: walked on . . . crush[ed] or flatten[ed] with the feet . . . pressed down into the ground. (Google) Who's feeling pressed down...

Yesterday I turned the last page of C.S. Lewis', Miracles. Maybe it's an English major thing, but trudging through Lewis' spiritual...

I can't imagine a bleaker point in history than the days between Christ's death and resurrection. If I were with Cleopas and his fellow...

Good ol' I Corinthians 13. Short and sweet and sharp as a dagger. Love is patient, love is kind, love doesn't envy, think highly of...

When you stop to count them, a TON of spiritual traits boil down to good ol' fashioned acts of will. Prayerfulness. Forgiveness....

Some people have the gift of giving gifts. One of my O&Ds (oldest and dearest) has proved it time and time again, most recently when she...

Perspective is a gift. God knew we couldn't handle the full, grandiose scope of everything He's doing in our lives, so he gave us limited...

Life threw me for a loop this week, y'all. One minute I'm rolling along, feeling reasonably in-control of my routine, and the next I'm...

One thing I've been awful at since day one—discerning God's will when I don't know how to move forward. Especially in the publishing...

The 39 books of the Old Testament paint a picture of what C.S. Lewis calls the "hammering process—" centuries of God's hard-line training...

It's remarkably easy to give someone the impression that we care about them. We all know the proper protocol: paint our faces in the...

Jeremiah—what a book. I mean, really, what a story. Like so many of God's prophets, he was thrown into a role he felt ill-equipped for,...

We think of progress as something linear—an arrow from present to future, improving all the time, always a step ahead of where we were...

Since making the spontaneous decision to start a brand new project for National Novel Writing Month, I've been thinking a lot about...

It's National Novel Writing Month, and I'm a roiling blend of nerves and excitement and dreams of a finished product by the end of one...

Sometimes we prefer our messages minced—into soft little bite-sized pieces that go down without much thought or pain or conviction....

There are some stories we fancy we know so well that we don't bother to pick up the book—and for a long time, for me, that was The...

If there's one message I've heard God whispering to my heart this summer, it has been to slow down, rest in Him, and wait—a difficult...