I’m in the middle of a fasting exercise that will span several months, following Jen Hatmaker’s book 7: An Experimental Mutiny against Excess. The first month was about food. After seeking direction from the Lord, I settled on a series of food restrictions for the first three weeks of October…
Don’t you just love leftovers? Time gives all the yummy a chance to multiply (think chili or banana bread—mmmm). Well, I’m dishing up some leftovers for today’s Comfort Detox meal. It’s something I first served August 28, 2012. That’s a lot of days for yummy to grow! Check out all…
A friend of mine just returned a borrowed book, Henri Nouwen’s The Way of the Heart. And because I’m a messy at heart, it sits with about six other books at the edge of my desk, staring at me, beckoning me to spend time with it. This morning I picked…
Convictions about comfort-based thinking and living have plagued me for years. Listen to this from an older post I wrote dated 2007 (my first year of blogging!). In it I lament how comfort’s call has such a say on my behavior: Every time I give in to the call, I…
I think Comfort is a ventriloquist. It has mastered the sound of my own voice, whispering in my ear all sorts of rational sounding reasons for sitting tight on my proverbial couch while life passes me by. Too many times have I listened to Comfort’s murmurings about doing what’s best…
When you see Christians behaving badly, don’t you wonder what the deal is? Shouldn’t knowing Jesus make a major difference in the way people think, the words people speak, and the actions people take? A common misconception is that being a Christ-follower should result in perfection. And so non-Christians, starting…
The daily things of life can seem rather small. Paperwork, laundry, dishes, errands . . . these are not tasks of earth-shattering importance. Or are they? Common things such as these only seem small until you add them together. Then the small things gain some weight and girth, perhaps even…
Many of you joined me here last week for my blogging adventure to the True Woman ’10 conference in Indianapolis. Thanks for your visits, comments (here and on my Facebook), e-mails, phone calls, and text messages! I felt loved. Today, I’m looking at my notes, remembering the messages I heard,…
A defining aspect of our culture here in the States is the multitude of choices available to us. Our consumer-based society has a marketplace of goods to suit the most particular of fancies. It has become so natural for us to have varying choices for every decision we face that…
Well, folks, we are now entering Hour 9 of the read-a-thon! My progress has been slower than expected, but thoroughly enjoyable. I have many thoughts of what I could have done for the read-a-thon if I had planned a bit better . . . but experience is such a good…
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