Simple Living

Simple Living

Simple living can seem elusive. In a world focused on achieving and accumulating more and bumper stickers that read, “He who dies with the most toys wins,” the reality of simple living seems like some pie-in-the sky ambition, a trend. Despite the proliferation of...
Stretching Toward Joy While Living with Pain

Stretching Toward Joy While Living with Pain

“I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live, loving the Lord your God, obeying him, and holding fast to him; for that means life to you and length of days.” Deuteronomy 30:19-20 NRSV  A casual...
Inviting God In to the Pain

Inviting God In to the Pain

What do I do with the pain?” a woman I was mentoring asked. She was referring to emotional and psychological wounds from her childhood for which she had not yet found healing. It would not have bothered her except that she felt hindered in her effectiveness for God’s...
The Road Ahead: When Less is More

The Road Ahead: When Less is More

Exhausted and utterly spent, I am close to the edge. It is a familiar but unhappy place, one in which I have spent for most of my life. From as far back as I could remember, I have been driven—driven to succeed, to perform, to seek love and approval by producing work...