As I literally ZIPPED through this bio, alternately feeling shock, repulsion, and unbelief, I doubted Joy Gresham Lewis was a woman who could teach me much about living through uncertain times. I did not like her! And I thought I knew her -- when I began Joy: Poet,...
"How much do you have to hate somebody to believe that everlasting life is possible and not tell them that?" the well-known magician Penn Jillete asked on a facebook video. Frankly, that question smacked me upside my oh so prone people pleasing head – or, maybe...
Living happily ever after is a hope that is hard to come by everywhere but fairy tales. Living happily each day, though, is possible. Many times I have heard and read, “don't waste your suffering.” God intends for our deep joy and intimacy to be in suffering; he sets...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge said of this season, "Summer has set in with its usual severity." This year our summer didn’t get severe until August. In Texas August is hot; in Maryland it’s humid. In Maine . . . well, it’s wonderful. But we aren’t there. We left the Texas...
UPROOTED! From Maryland to Texas and Back Again In 2005, we moved, uprooting ourselves from “the Free state,” we transplanted ourselves in the Lone-Star state, thinking we would return to Maryland. Our move has lasted ten years. We found good soil there: Texas has a...
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