No devotional last Friday because I spoke in Birmingham, Alabama at St. Peter's Anglican at their very first ever Women's Retreat, Finding the Heart of God for Ourselves and Each Other. God broke through in a lovely way in their lives, bringing new levels of interaction with each other and with him. What a lovely …
Author Archives: Karen
A Tenacious Focus
Even if you have a difficult father to overcome, as I did, God wants to father you into all he's made you to be. That sentence capsulizes my memoir, Trading Fathers. When I first began to write my story of wrestling with God, honing that sentence took six months. Getting the story in a sentence …
Beauty That Lasts
For many years, the entry to our bungalow was a door comprised of scraps of redwood. My craftsman husband had built a redwood strip canoe, leaving leftover narrow pieces. On the jobsite of architecturally designed houses as an electrician, he’d also gathered pieces of 1 x 4 redwood lumber. Putting them together, we designed an …