I’m sitting in church, snuggled in my husband’s chest, his arm around me, listening. We haven’t done this in so long … sat in church together and listened. We don’t get to sit together anymore. Too busy. Our anniversary was the day before. We had a big fight. It was about 87% my fault. I suck. [...]

Last Sunday Derwin and I went to North Point Community Church in the Atlanta area. We heard Part One of a message called “Illusions.” The pastor, Jeff Henderson, laid out a pretty simple message on being fake. I suppose many or most of us are fake about something, that’s not a new story. I guess this one [...]

I went to Catalyst for what (I think) was my fifth year in a row. This year was the best one so far in my opinion, though. Not because of the speakers (although they were great). There was just something different in the air. I always enjoyed the speakers and the cool stuff at Catalyst. But [...]

I’ve noticed lately that I’m not the only one who’s unsatisfied. I was at Theo and Aysha’s life development group a couple weeks ago, and we were talking about evangelism. One guy said he wasn’t sure he wanted to do the “evangelism thing” where we do it because we have to, because it’s the “Christian thing [...]

My house has these two decorative columns that divide the living room and dining room. One of the useless columns is about 2 feet from the wall that encloses the kitchen (we have an open floor plan). It was broad daylight, so I can’t even use the dark as an excuse. I was walking out [...]

I’m sorry it’s been so long since I’ve reviewed anything! No matter what’s going on in my life, I have no right to keep you from being as fully informed on my movie criticisms as possible. Forgive me? So let’s play catch-up: Burn After Reading | Since I just saw this one last week, I’ll give you a [...]

Late August 2005 After the angel encounter, I believed I’d been given the go-ahead to divorce my husband. I didn’t wanted to leave: staying in a predictable hell seemed preferable to facing an uncertain future. Yet I’d already decided to trust God. Funny, once you decide to do the hard thing, you don’t balk anymore. You [...]

This year has been strange. I’ve spent half of it being distant from God, angry at him and unforgiving of him. There’s a difficult relationship in my life, and I’ve been waiting for God to fix it, hoping he’d fix it. This year my hopes took a serious hit. I got pissed off at God. I started [...]

A few years ago I used to be an avid listener to Hank Hanaagraf, the Bible Answer Man. I don’t listen to him anymore, because he reminds me of an agoraphobic. But there’s one thing he said that I still think about now and then. He said people considering giving their lives to Jesus Christ should be [...]

This is a post about overeating. But it applies to lots of things. My husband pointed that out. A few weeks ago I was doing laundry, and I was thinking about cakes, and frostings, and cookies, and chocolate, and other delicious gooey things. As I had done many times over the past several months, I felt [...]