Look for my “That Thing We Do” feature in Marriage Partnership, due out early December in the Winter, 2006 issue. Published by Christianity Today International, this is a magazine to help us all have more intimate, fun, and powerful relationships with our spouses. The editor, Ginger Kolbaba, is a sharp, warm woman whose recent book, …
Category Archives: Christian Devotional
Give Thanks
How did Thanksgiving go at your house? Did you have lots of people in or did you go to someone else’s house where groups of people ate huge amounts at tables jammed in around sofas and potted plants? Or did you eat alone or at a community dinner? Some of us gathered in much smaller …
The Right Label
In my early twenties, chagrined by my messy house, I complained to my older friend, Phyllis: “I’m just so lazy, I never get anything done.” With a soft face and a twinkle in her eye, Phyllis said, “You’re not lazy, you’re just unmotivated.” “Unmotivated”—that was a different story. Lazy felt like the color of …