Summer brings the promise of warmer weather, longer days, and a collective exhale. We look at the span of months on the calendar between the frenetic schedule of the school year and imagine a season of rest. Finally, we get to slow down and enjoy the lazy summer days. Then we get to August, right before school starts back, and we realize, Wait. What happened? Where did the lazy days go? I want a...
Humility might seem like a weakness or being soft, but in reality, it is the path of a resilient, bold, sturdy, strong, even-tempered, and confident Christian. In his new devotional and companion study guide, The Humility Project for Men: The Way to Strength, Honor, and Contentment, Edward T. Welch invites men on a 42-day biblical journey to explore the transformative power of humility for their...
Recently I read an excellent post by my friend, Eliza Jane Huie. Eliza introduced her thoughts with these words: I have learned so much from biblical counseling. It is a meaningful and integral part of my practice. However, I found that we can sometimes hold onto less helpful ideas out of loyalty to a movement, organization, or person. Here are some things I am letting go of and why. Eliza, as a...
There’s a verse that can feel like a promise and a wound at the same time: Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house;your children will be like olive shoots around your table. ~ Psalm 128:3 And if you’re a mother who’s prayed, labored, loved, disciplined, shown up when it’s hard, or stayed when it hurt . . . this verse can feel like it’s describing someone...
When my oldest was two, I set up a playdate with a new friend and her daughter. As we pushed our girls on the swings, she asked: “Where does your little girl go to school?” My daughter was two. Living in an affluent area, my husband and I had noticed that many children started private school by age two. Still, we felt four year-old preschool or kindergarten was a perfectly appropriate time to...
