Category: hard questions
Updated on March 16, 2020
Peace. Be Still. And wash your hands.
These are the days of people grocery shopping with gloves on, buying toilet paper by the case and backing away from handshakes. A nervous store clerk scrubs the counter with a pile of wipes and tries to take …
Updated on January 24, 2020
For when you don’t know what to do
Anyone remember these? I found this relic from ’90’s church camp when I was cleaning things out recently. WWJD – What Would Jesus Do? It was a phrase we teenagers were taught to think about whenever we had …
Updated on November 1, 2018
Headlines, Horror, Cookies and Potato Latkes
There is a synagogue across the street from our church. We share parking lots and pleasantries during big events and holidays. We know their Rabbi and they know our Pastor. We speak and smile and try not to …
Posted on October 18, 2018
What to do when you run out of storage space
My iPhone has not backed itself up in the last 96 days. It tells me this as I am trying to retrieve some super important piece of information from it. The home screen locks and this message appears. …
Updated on November 1, 2017
How to do the things you don’t want to do
I hate lists almost as much as I hate math. Seriously. I will do anything to keep from having to enumerate life. My brain thinks freedom is found in being untethered, in lyric and cadence but never with …
Updated on October 3, 2017
Why we have to talk to our kids about Las Vegas
My older boys get most of their news and information from Instagram and the school bus. It is simply the way life is these days. If they begin a sentence with, “Hey mom did you know that …” …
Updated on August 15, 2017
On being salt and light and why it matters
I’ve read so many words about the riots in Charlottesville this past weekend. I’ve read words of haters and ones claiming that love wins; sad words and outraged ones. I’ve seen friends’ words unravel years of friendship in comment threads on social …
Updated on July 18, 2017
Because, No. We are not there yet.
“Are we there yet?” The most famous question of the summer. My kids ask this on a 5 minute drive to Target; so you can imagine a road trip in our car. And usually I begin the trip by kindly answering their questions, giving them a sign …
Updated on October 14, 2016
Who’s in charge around here anyway?
Fall has arrived in the South, y’all! And I am so thankful for the crisp air that whistles through the open windows in my office and helps with the usual pervading smell of all things boy. I have peaceful visions of quietly getting some work done while the …
Updated on August 18, 2016
What Would Jesus Do?
This week it is Snapchat. Please, mom, please can I get it on my phone? Everyone has it. Please mom. This teenager of mine is nothing if not persistent. And he knows I have no good answer. He …
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