There are so many things that are difficult about being a person right now. There is what there has always been, And there is a long list of what has never been before. There are the dishes in the sink, And there are the cereal boxes left open on the bottom shelf of the pantry. […]
Maybe this has happened to you. You’re some place fairly serious, aiming to have a fairly serious conversation, and suddenly something strikes you funny. Something that isn’t actually funny in real life. Oh, say, bowel cancer. Or blood clots. Something unanimously unfunny. But, you see, outside of this fairly serious conversation, you’ve been navigating some […]
"So, Barbara Brown Taylor asks this question, and also Jen Hatmaker closes every podcast episode with it. Here's what I want to know: What is saving your life right now?" There's a pause while he thinks, which isn't surprising since I sprung this question on him while we are live on the air. That's how […]
"You start this time," he said. I groaned audibly. "OF course you would say that." "I have to confess something to you right from the top... this is the day, maybe like every day, that I think I have nothing to offer to the world. I have nothing. This is it." He bubbles with laughter. […]
So many new things are happening in these crazy times, you guys. Like the fact that I seem to have become a homeschooling mom who bakes pies and walks several miles a day. It's like that game on Facebook where you're supposed to post a status that makes people think you've been abducted. Like if […]
Don't you love when a great podcast pops up in your feed? My friends Juli and Hannah invited me to join them on Authentic Intimacy waaaay back in December. (Hannah was even wearing the most charming Christmas sweater on the day of our dialogue.) But it's crazy how the conversation from so many weeks ago […]
What advice would you give to the younger you? ⠀ ⠀ “Love Hard. Especially because I now know what that would cost me... to love hard. And I would do it all again. I wouldn’t have spared myself any of the pain that I have gone through by loving hard, and by loving what death […]
I am vacationing with all my men this week, which means coffee and books and naps and zero wifi. So I'm hitting up the blog with some old favorites of mine. See you next week with new ideas and a new outlook on life. Margin is a wonderful thing. ~ ~ ~ I have a […]
You already know I'm something of a podcast junkie. I straight up binge-listen to these conversations. For an auditory learner, they're music to my ears. (Literally. As in, I prefer them over actual music.) I'm spending a lot of my car-time these days with Jen Hatmaker on her new podcast, For The Love. Her current series is called For […]
It was a Full Circle moment in my life, to be invited to join Jim Daly and John Fuller to record an episode of The Daily Broadcast with Focus on the Family. The thing is, I grew up on a healthy dose of James Dobson's voice in my ear every day, in the kitchen and […]
The thing about live radio is that there isn’t an option to edit your own words. What you don’t filter just comes right out. I need a radio filter. That’s what I need. I now have a weekly spot on the radio with The Good News with Angie Austin. It’s a delightful and optimistic talk […]
