Dreams help me communicate with myself. Those things I hesitate to admit to myself often end up as my subconscious knocking on the door of my dreams to let me know something is wrong. I didn’t come to a complete realization about how my mind was trying to capture my attention until well into my first marriage. I began to read a few books on dream analysis. The parallels between my dream life and my real one suddenly became unavoidably obvious. I just needed to think metaphorically. I recently had a dream involving my ex, who I divorced nearly…

Spiritual lessons rarely come easy for anyone. Usually, we learn the lessons that spiritual mothers and fathers learned before us, lessons they figured out the hard way, just like we do. But once internalized, these spiritual truths give us the strength to endure the hard times with grace. These realities give us the fortitude to resist temptation, stand for truth, resist fear, and resolutely abide in Christ. I feel like such a slow learner. I have to repeat homework and retake the spiritual tests over and over. But I have discovered that this is part of the process. How many…

God is radically faithful. We spend our lives relying on the steady rotations of the earth. Each day comes with absolute regularity. Seasons pass, each bringing its colors and pleasures. For most of my life, I took these absolutes upon which I based the rhythms of my life entirely for granted.  I established my plans around the days, weeks, months, and years without considering that I  absolutely counted on their presence. My entire life depended on God’s faithfulness without my awareness of it. As I moved into being a wife and a mother, so much depended on developing the ability…