Sometimes a zigzag in your path gives you the opportunity to take a big spoonful of your own advice. The advice (medicine) I recommend on a frequent basis is: “When life zigs and zags, keep moving forward.” Those words are the tagline for my Zigzag & 1 podcast. At the end of every episode, I…
Mentoring is a powerful connection between two women of faith. When I was a young woman – new in the faith – several older Christian women came alongside me, giving me a safe space to grapple with challenging situations, sharing with me how their faith grew during their struggles, pointing me to Jesus and God’s…
Domestic violence came disguised as Larissa’s* helper. On the way to a family reunion, a tire went flat on her car. With no cell phone to call for help and no money to pay for a tow truck, she waited on the side of the road. A kind truck driver stopped and offered to help. …
Tears collected in a bottle. An unusual idea, but David used this phrase in Psalm 56:8 to describe how God keeps a record of human pain and suffering. He cares for us when we are hurting. Rhonda* clung to this verse many times throughout her life. Believing God saw her tears and held her close…
Waiting wastes time. Or does it? Do you ever feel irritated as a stoplight turns red-green-yellow then red again, and you’re still not through the intersection? Me, too! Inching along tests my patience. Through all of those times of waiting at an intersection, I’ve learned another way: active waiting. Instead of fretting, I can…
As the daughter of a professional athlete (Rich Dauer was inducted into Batlimore Orioles Hall of Fame in 2012.) and a lifelong athlete-turned-coach myself, I am well versed in the idea of ‘all or nothing.’ I lived most of my life with the old school attitude of “give 110% or don’t show up at all.”…
Mine ears, though deaf in this world, listen for Your words. Softly, whispering my name. Closing my eyes in prayer I turn my ear to You, straining to hear Your sweet voice.* *You can find the full poem here: Incline My Ear – Marcie W Bridges My friend and guest blogger, Marcie Bridges,…
Defeating pancreatic cancer – the cancer with the lowest survival rate – takes a woman who is strong and courageous. And Mary Anne* IS that kind of woman. * Her real name is used with permission. Wasn’t Always Strong and Courageous But Mary Anne wasn’t always strong and courageous. For 22 years, she lived with…
H-O-M-E. Four powerful letters knit together. Most of us take home for granted. Not Addlia*. She truly understands what the other 553,742 homeless people in the United States in 2017 faced when they didn’t have a place to call home. Addlia and her son, Jaiden, were among those statistics just a year earlier. * Her…
The ancient Japanese art of kintsugi believes taking a broken thing and binding it with gold makes it better than before. Could the same be possible for a marriage broken by adultery? Stephanie* believes so. Five years after their marriage crumbled, Stephanie AND Jaime continue to strive for a marriage that is better than before….