Before I had my first child, I dreaded going to baby showers and hearing the various war stories of childbirth. It couldn’t be as painful as they described. Why are women still enduring this torture in the 20th century if it is so horrible? Of course I was the...
“You look beautiful,” Nancy said as I joined her on the sidewalk in front of school. Thursday afternoon pick-up time and let me tell you, I was not looking beautiful. Not that Nancy was lying. She called it as she saw it. But she was mistaken. The day started...
In a recent film, Helen Hunt plays a waitress who is annoyed with a customer, a man who cuts her down, is sarcastic, and is generally unkind. At one point she says to him, ‘I don’t want to be around you anymore. You make me not like me.’ My...
This past year I’ve been praying for some new directions in my personal walk with the Lord. For months as I engaged my regular routines and requirements I felt a vague restlessness coupled with the disturbing question, “What if this is all there is to my life? Is it...
