“Those who passed by hurled insults at Him, shaking their heads and saying, ‘So! You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in...

I practiced his absence a hundred times during his senior year, when he was at musical practice, when he went to a friend’s house, when...

Pepa went to be with Jesus two months before our boy was born, but I still think I see him from time to time.  When it happens, my heart...

It’s happened way too much lately.  We’re right in the middle of family time, enjoying each other’s company, and someone checks their...

Truth?  There is nothing in this whole world that I love more than Scripture.  However, sometimes, it’s difficult for me to digest.  It’s...

Outside our Falls Creek apartment window, I hear voices, the sing-song enthusiasm of students and sponsors on their way to the...

Grandmother was adorable.  I loved everything about her, the way she loved her family fiercely and her dog almost as much, the way she...

In case you haven’t heard, there’s a new sensation sweeping the nation.  Well,maybe not the nation…  maybe just Falls Creek.  Hill...

A couple of weeks ago, two of our dearest friends, Aaron and Cory Lynne Myers, drove in with their girls, Elli Kate and Ana Beth, to...

I am not a roller coaster girl!  Some people live for the thrill of riding them.  Not me.  I do enjoy the initial tickle in my belly and...

Todd gets home from Spain today and just in time.  The soft T-shirt he sleeps in—the one he left behind at my request—has lost its scent,...

Over spring break, my family and I loaded up the car and headed east.  As we drove, a funny thing happened.  We ended up farther and...

Why do we have so much trouble trusting God? I think it has a lot to do with the fact that we have all, at some point, been let down by...

My seventh-grade students are in the middle of a research project on the 1960’s. For bell work one day, I asked them whether they had...

We may get a snow day tomorrow! What are the chances? Well, it depends on whom you ask. One television station makes it sound like we...

Nothing shakes my confidence like looking in the mirror after a long day of  interaction with people and finding that I had food in my...

There are cute kids, and then there are impossibly cute kids, the ones with large eyes, long eyelashes, and soft, ample cheeks.  It was...

Do you ever feel like every good deed you’ve done, everything encouraging word you’ve spoken, every productive idea you’ve ever had...

I’m not excited about Christmas. There. I said it. The troubling thing is that I seem to be the only one. So far, I’ve watched three...

This morning, Todd found his car in a new spot.  At first, he thought someone had moved it as a joke, an oh-so-funny teenage son perhaps?...