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I was running through my mental to-do list while my husband dug out another pile of dirt in our overflowing garden beds. As I prepared to wheel yet another pile of dirt…

“I’m thirty-five and single—haven’t I learned enough about waiting?” I said it as a joke when telling a friend about yet another delay in my kitchen renovation project, but I wasn’t entirely…

Pareto’s Rule, or the 80/20 principle, states that 80 percent of the consequences come from 20 percent of the causes. Over the years, I’ve heard this applied to the church: 20 percent…

Julia Child brought the “art of French cooking” to the American populace in 1960s through her cookbooks and television show. To gain the culinary skills that earned her the book contract (and…

“Are you happy?” That was the question asked in frustration by my then husband as he stood in my room one night six months before our divorce was final. What I once…

I’ve been a follower of Jesus now for twenty-five years, but until just recently, every time I’ve heard the Great Commission—go and make disciples—I’ve felt ill-equipped. Everyone else obviously knows so much…

April was a tough month. My eighty-nine-year-old dad was hospitalized because of complications from a “minor” surgery. To care for and advocate for him, I visited the hospital once or twice a…

Situated between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, the Bay of Fundy had fascinated my husband and I many years ago when we were passing through the area on our way home from…

After my husband’s first cancer diagnosis, we met with the surgeon, who worked hard to put us at ease. After surgery, we waited for the results to see if the cancer had…

“If I could promise you that if you wake up tomorrow morning at 5 a.m. to have a quiet time, you will hear the audible voice of God, would you do it?”…