My Life’s Bywords

My Life’s Bywords

We laid, nose-to-nose, on my bed and I stared into eyes that weren’t hazel like mine and I saw myself in them. She asked me why? Why all this pain?  She’s inherited her mama’s life-question. The stories that surreptitiously escaped her guard that...

Do the Little Things

This is the last guest post (for this season). Authors from all different walks and stages of life, from all different expressions of Christianity, have filled in each other’s gaps and told a story of how He turns the bitter, sweet. We’ve tasted bite-sized...

What Do You Believe?

All of His stories welling up in a person are ones to handle with care, but there are some that feel especially sacred. This story today is one of those. Katye Riselli lets us, many of whom are strangers, in to a kind of darkness which few have known. I felt...

Pressing Deeper to Know the One Who Turns the Bitter Sweet

“I’ve come to give you courage,” she said as she stood on my doorstep and embraced the hidden parts of my story that I couldn’t hide behind bloodshot eyes and sniffles that Saturday morning. Cindy Finley lives His courage. She met us at the...

Slavery Is Not Inevitable

There is always a story behind the story. Nate and I have been privileged to walk with these two cherished friends and witness the story behind this story that many thousands across the world are now reading. I read the manuscript years ago while spending a weekend at...

A Heart For Your Children

We pulled away from a dinner with their family in our childless days and a sense from Him surfaced in my spirit: “you’re going to learn from them.”  And that we have. In those days, we had no idea that God was preparing us to have a...
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