What's the key to love?  Would you say that it's accepting another person "as is?"

Writer Ann Voskamp says, "…there is not even one of us who hasn't lost something, who doesn't fear something, who doesn't ache with some unspoken pain."[1]

[1] Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2016), 19.

Have you noticed that God usually doesn't do things the way we would?

There sometimes comes a time when a person is just done.

Kay Bruner was done. The 30-something missionary stood in the middle of a gravel road, in the highlands of Papua New Guinea and said, "I can't do this anymore."  So, they gave her a little blue pill and put her to bed. When she woke up, she wanted to die.

What would you say?  Is there such a thing as a totally hopeless situation?

Bullies are nothing new.  Would you believe there are bullies in the Bible?

If you've experienced being bullied, you're in good company.  Two stories in the Bible show us that God sees, hears and cares about those who have been bullied.

Don't make me tell you again, is a phrase that often comes out of the mouths of frustrated parents.  But you won't hear that from God, your spiritual Father.

Do you ever have a hard time reconciling the reality of God on His throne, with the reality of life on the streets? 

When God wanted to reveal Himself to humans, he didn't start a YouTube channel, he wrote a book. God used words.  Words matter to God.

Borders between countries can be unnerving places.  Each time I cross one, I'm secretly holding my breath that all my documents will be in order and that nothing in my bags will be a problem.