How Jesus Teaches Women to Be Treated
I’m on Twitter – probably my first mistake – when a man starts putting me down. I’d written an article for a Christian magazine and he disagreed, let’s see, with my words? My tone? My profile photo?...
View ArticleWhen I Doubt My True Worth, Lord Remind Me
My friend had dropped off a little orchid plant for me. It’s so tiny, the vase and plant only stand seven inches tall. I’ve never bought orchids for myself before, so I was amazed seeing how the petals...
View ArticleHow to Heal or Destroy with Words
I still remember where we were standing. My bare feet were sticking slightly to her linoleum floor as we talked in the doorway of her family’s kitchen. There’s only one part of that conversation that I...
View ArticleLonging and Finding Mooluk
There’s a word in Hindi called mooluk, which more or less translates to “home, sweet home.” It’s a word that means far more than just a place of belonging. When someone says, “I’ve found mooluk,” they...
View ArticleIn the Quiet, I Am Still His Beloved
And just like that, May has come and is almost gone. Do you remember five months ago when we all rang in 2020 with such hope, excitement, and expectancy? Then, fast forward to a couple of months in and...
View ArticleCrisis, Comparison, and a Checkpoint for My Heart
It happened again just the other day, a trigger that startled me. I thought this weapon had been disarmed, that it no longer carried power to bully me. Having TSA pre-check status was supposed to...
View ArticleThigh Dimples, Gray Hair, and an Underarm Situation
We were at Burger King because my kids like Whoppers and it was baseball season and it was just easy. I reached over to the nice lady handing me our food and my sweet, precious delight of a child took...
View ArticleWhy I’m Having an Identity Crisis
Most nights I lay awake in bed rehearsing different conversations I had throughout the day. I worry if I said or did the right thing. I calculate and rethink what I should or could have done. I wonder...
View ArticleFocus on Who Not Do
It’s the beginning of a new year, and I don’t have a word, a detailed plan, or written goals. I’m more confused than I was three weeks ago about next steps in my life. I’m praying about what I should...
View ArticleYou’re Already ‘The Best’ with God
The news dropped out of nowhere. Then it embarrassed me. Then it shocked me. I’m a simple working writer – neither famous nor important. I just wrestle with this curious work – writing – and seek to...
View ArticleYou ARE Winning Your Race!
Recently, I was given an assignment: Ask a few people who know you well what they think your biggest strengths are and where they see you being brave in the midst of what you’re dealing with. Honestly,...
View ArticleWhen You Hear the Lies That You’re Insignificant
This sentiment orbits around me. The childhood trauma of my parents’ divorce acts as its gravitational pull. In the breakup of their marriage, my mom was awarded primary custody of my brother and me,...
View ArticleEmbracing My Crown of Glory
She was sharing her first-time visitor experience at our church. “I remember seeing your hair,” she told me. “It was so warm and inviting, and so I followed your hair right into the church!” I smiled....
View ArticleOnce Blind to Beauty, Now Stunned by All There Is to See
She stood next to me, towering over me. My legs swung back and forth from the playground bench, trying to stay in rhythm with the nearby slap-slap sound of a jump rope smacking the blacktop, again and...
View ArticleOn Being More Than Just Enough
I’m lying flat on my back on a yoga mat. It’s purple and pretty, spread out on a flat roof atop a mountain-resort lodge in Colorado — altitude 7,500 feet. So, I’m out of my territory. Colorado’s my...
View ArticleJesus Never Mistakes My Identity
It’s not easy living in a brown body. There is this pain I carry in almost every space I enter, a fear that wracks my mind and heart as I wonder if the people I’m about to meet will see the real me or...
View ArticleWhen I Doubt My True Worth, Lord Remind Me
My friend had dropped off a little orchid plant for me. It’s so tiny, the vase and plant only stand seven inches tall. I’ve never bought orchids for myself before, so I was amazed seeing how the petals...
View ArticleHow to Heal or Destroy with Words
I still remember where we were standing. My bare feet were sticking slightly to her linoleum floor as we talked in the doorway of her family’s kitchen. There’s only one part of that conversation that I...
View ArticleLonging and Finding Mooluk
There’s a word in Hindi called mooluk, which more or less translates to “home, sweet home.” It’s a word that means far more than just a place of belonging. When someone says, “I’ve found mooluk,” they...
View ArticleIn the Quiet, I Am Still His Beloved
And just like that, May has come and is almost gone. Do you remember five months ago when we all rang in 2020 with such hope, excitement, and expectancy? Then, fast forward to a couple of months in and...
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