Sometimes when life gets discombobulated I ignore the chaos and lose myself in books. Or rather, in book after book after book! That happened to me in January of this year. It was awesome. Kind of. Not the discombobulation, but the joy of reading. On the other hand, sometimes life whirls so out of control that I can’t read anything. I can’t concentrate on...

Everybody loves a bargain! My 2013 Carol Award finalist book, At Every Turn, is only .99 in ebook format from today (2/27/15) until Sunday (3/1/25). Get your copy and share the info with your friends! Happy reading!         (sometimes the online retailers are a little slow in changing the price, so if you click through and it isn’t .99,...

Four years ago, we thought we had our final senior night ceremony with our middle child, our oldest son. And we were sad. But then he joined his college basketball team as a manager, and four years later, we’ve really, really had our last senior night. It was such a joy to celebrate this young man who has worked hard and loved his team. He has learned so much...

Words–their meanings and the ideas they convey–are important to me. Yes, it’s because I write. But it’s also because I am alive. Because God created us as communicative beings. First to communicate with Him, then with one another. But the aliveness of words, and especially words that pertain to God, both His nature and our lives in Christ,...

This year I’ve been reading two Watchman Nee devotional books. I mentioned these to my friend recently, explaining that I had picked them up when in my Watchman Nee phase. (i.e. I raced through several of his books in a row.) “Ah, yes,” she replied. “Haven’t we all had a Watchman Nee phase?” I agreed in the moment, but as I thought...