Every time I pick up a pen, I'm outside of my comfort zone. When I carry a camera in my hands, I sometimes feel incapable of capturing the scene that I see in my heart. The humblest tools of a pen and a camera become the most debilitating. Who am I to think I can [...]
I have a bad habit. My husband knows it, and still loves me. I sometimes hide it, but it's always there. Here it is: I am a chronic tab user. My Web browser is chock full of open tabs. Let me explain. I use bookmarks, I do. I save links. But if I'm simply [...]
A mind at perfect peace with God: Oh, what a word is this! A sinner reconciled through blood: This, this indeed is peace. By nature and by practice far, How very far from God! Yet now by grace brought nigh to Him Through faith in Jesus' blood. So nigh, so very nigh to God, I [...]
Here in South Texas, we had what felt like was an early spring. Bluebonnets started sprouting. Early seedlings popped out. Hints of verbena and lantana began to show themselves. Last night, though, San Antonio bundled up for a late-season cold snap. The temperature gauge says "28 degrees," with plans to stay down in that vicinity [...]
Oh, dear Abby—I had so many emotions wash over me watching you walk to the car with your Daddy after church. This world you’re inheriting is a broken place. Just this weekend, I saw a sight I never expected: Confederate, American, and Nazi flags all flown together in the face of all that is good. [...]
