Bible

Do you ever wonder if God sees you? Hears you? Loves you? Whether you have never prayed a single prayer in your life or you have been walking with God for a long time, it’s normal to have questions. It’s normal to doubt. It’s normal to hope and wonder about God altogether. Wherever you are on the faith spectrum, we are so glad you’re here. Our team of writers consists of women of faith. Women who are beginning their faith journey. Women building their faith. Women who have experienced hard, real-life things and have fought to maintain a battered faith. Because of this, we see the value in seeking God. One of the most sure ways to do this is through reading

Have you ever felt like your world was shaking, maybe even crumbling, around you? I say “your world” and not “the world” because it’s not actually the whole world, just your whole world. Which is a very different thing because you can feel quite alone when it’s only “your world.” If it were, indeed, the whole world then at least you’d have some company. I think most of us have been there, or are there right now. It’s part of living in a broken place. Illness, division, pain, separation, heartbreak, sin—and its aftermath. There is so much going on around us, it can be overwhelming within us. As I was reading Psalm 46, I felt as though the author understood all of

It was a beautiful Saturday morning. I sat down at my desk and set a warm cup of tea on my favorite china plate. The sun peeked through the window, casting an interesting shadow across my desk and the surrounding floor. Titus, our 11-year-old dog, found a sliver of sun and stretched out on the rug, sound asleep after a nice walk on the river trail. The world was quiet, a perfect time to write. I opened my laptop and read a few emails, responded to the most important, and then turned my attention to a new writing project. I had been working for about an hour when it hit. A high-pitched ringing in my left ear. I continued to try to

The summer I turned 45, I had some accomplishments I desperately hoped to achieve in celebration of this milestone, one of which was publishing my first book. I’ve spent the better part of the two years prior writing, editing, and honing my message, wrestling my stories down to the ground and looking for their transcendent meaning. That’s why I was a bit surprised by the publisher’s “note” at the top of my manuscript. “Thanks for sharing your spiritual memoir with me.” I had spent months agonizing over a concise yet sensational way to explain what my book was about. A spiritual memoir never made the list. But once she labeled it as such, I couldn’t deny there was an element of truth

Ever since I was young I have loved reading novels. I felt as though I had entered a whole new world with every book I opened, and the characters within them became some of my dearest friends. More recently I’ve been into reading nonfiction books written by celebrities or successful people who want to share their story. A favorite of mine this past year is a book called Girl, Wash Your Face. I had been itching to read it ever since I skimmed the inside cover during a previous Barnes & Noble trip. After reading the introduction, I was already underlining and highlighting words like crazy. It’s an inspiring book that explains many of the lies women tell themselves and documents one

The delightful game of Candy Land has brought about many award winning meltdowns in our home including (but not limited to) boards being slung across the room, people body slammed to the floor, and other bizarre behaviors that seem unnatural. It’s all fun and games…until someone gets hurt. But there is one game that doesn’t cause my competitive children to go crazy, and that is the game of Chutes and Ladders. In this game, the little cardboard cutout kids have to climb up the ladders to the 100th square to achieve the status of winner. Are You Good Enough to Climb All the Way Up? How do the players progress? Well, you have to do more good than bad. If you are