After the murder of George Floyd, racial tensions rose to dramatic levels in America. A man posted our Heart Perception page on Facebook, “I hope you make a statement in support of Black Lives Matter!” For a moment, I was in a quandry. Of course, I believe that black lives matter. And brown lives and […]
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“I have something to tell you, and I already know you are going to roll your eyes,” my husband says. After the very long nightly process of Peter Rabbit stories and prayers for Africa and last-minute gulps of water with our four boys, my husband Brian and I had finally sunk into the couch to debrief our
My 3-year old son and I took a walk together the other morning, headed to one of our favorite spots under a bridge to throw rocks in the creek. As we passed another mom and her son at the park, he yelled out in typical fashion, “What’s your name?” The mom replied, and then my son yelled
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Sirens blare and lights flash in our neighborhood outside my boys’ bedroom window, jolting me out of bedtime stories. I pull up the window to hear a woman wailing, wails that can only mean someone is experiencing something unthinkable. I bolt down the stairs, out the door, and up the street. Is it Heather? Melissa? Ginny?
A few weeks ago, a friend invited us out to spend the day on the lake. Brian and the boys were in blissful boy-land, taking hair-pin turns on a jet ski, hanging onto a flinging tube behind a boat for dear life, you know, those peaceful kinds of things us women dream of doing on
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Gifts. A gift from the Giver. We stand in a circle at the Christians in Theater Arts (CITA) Latin America 2012 conference, eyes wide, drinking in the creativity, the eagerness of 50 artists gathered in San Juan, Puerto Rico to share dreams, to train for transformation, to breathe deep of the gifts of the Giver.
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Are you struggling to motivate kids to do their schoolwork? Well, not just kids in general, but specifically your own kids? Then this post is for you! The coronavirus pandemic has forced many of us to become homeschooling parents, much to our dismay. And, if you’re like me, you have a hard enough time figuring
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If my 30-year friend from from middle school, Kellie Newton, had texted me to say, “Let’s talk about impeachment, abortion, and religion!” I would have said, “I’m sorry, but I’m realllly busy this week! I need to clean the lint out of my dryer vent…yup, realllly busy.” Few conversation topics are as uncomfortable as these.
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It goes without saying that kids are funny. As we were driving down the highway the other day, my son turned around to look behind us and asked, “Mommy! Why are all those cars chasing us?” I have four boys. I realize that may make you shudder, not laugh. But my kids make me laugh!
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Do you need to get over the fear of saying the wrong thing? Today, it feels very risky to open our mouths. With our polarized culture, we can offend others easily, triggering them to unleash their wrath on us. But we can’t let our fear silence us. Over the last few years in my work
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