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Tuesday 5th March 2013
#TellHisStory: Neverlands and Promised Lands
I’m sharing my #TellHisStory over at The High Calling today. It’s a story involves this good-looking farmer, and the crazy twists and turns that brought that law-school graduate and his newspaper reporter/wife back to the farm. Will you come on over by clicking here? I’d love ...
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Friday 1st March 2013
When You Need to Know That God Picked You (A Book Giveaway!)
This is a story about two women who helped me believe that God could fulfill His purposes for my life. And this is a story about the same two women helping you believe in God’s purposes for your life. My part in the story starts in 2010, when Ann reached an arm across the dinner table... ...
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Wednesday 30th January 2013
How To Live a Right-Side-Up Life
She tells me she doesn’t know how to go back—not after all that we’ve witnessed. And I tell her that going back might be impossible anyway. We can’t un-see what we’ve seen. She’s my 11-year-old daughter. And now, we sit in the silence, hundreds of miles from our comfortable life in Iowa, ...
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Wednesday 19th December 2012
Empty Stomach
I have been happily checking off tiny boxes before we leave for Haiti next month: Schedule doctor visits. Pack suitcases. Distribute vaccine. But honestly, how does a parent adequately prepare two girls—ages 11 and 8—for an up-close encounter with abject poverty? Will you join me at The ...
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Friday 16th November 2012
A Time to Kill and a Time to Heal … {To Everything}
“Is she going to be okay, Mom?” my daughter whispered as we stood under the morning Iowa sun, while leaning against the calf pen. “She isn’t going to die, is she?” Lydia, 10, looked at me with pooling eyes. On the other side of the pen, a weak and feverish calf groaned this long, aching... Read More
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Friday 9th November 2012
When You Need to Get Away … (And a Friend I Want You to Meet)
I’m away on retreat in Texas this weekend, with friends from TheHighCalling.org. But I have someone special for you to meet today over at FaithRadioNet.com. I’ve written about Almarie, an amazing and beautiful woman who wakes up every night at 3:30 a.m. to pray and read Scripture. ...
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Sunday 30th September 2012
The High Calling of a Farmer
The girls and I trace crackling gravel roads to bring our favorite farmer a drink. We park by the barbed wire and climb the half-naked hill. Up on this bluff, I feel exposed, too. A stripping away. With less of myself, I see more of God. The hillside fields out here by the river are... Read More
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Tuesday 25th September 2012
The More Things Change
I see it all with startling clarity, right before the last bit of daylight slips under those yellowing fields, all swaying like a lion’s mane. I stand still, with my arms crossed, a fair distance away, watching my two daughters. That’s when I see the truth of it: time has a way of folding ...
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Tuesday 28th August 2012
The Work My Kids Will Never Learn From Their Mother
Do you ever wonder if you’re teaching your children enough about this curious, delightful world that we live and work in? Do you look at your own abilities, and wonder what worthwhile skills you’re passing down to the next generation? Today, at The High Calling, I’m sharing a ...
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Tuesday 3rd July 2012
Let Freedom Ring
Today is the Fourth of July, and I’m remembering a moment two years ago when I stood outside the state prison, realizing how freedom can catch hold of people in rancorous places. Would you join me, on the other side of the razor wire? I’m sharing a story of freedom over at The High ...
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