I remember when I thought 30 was forever away. Now it seems as though it was last week in this life that keeps propelling forward at a rate somewhere between feverishly fast and awkwardly slow. My friend Sarah McCarten (who I met through Elora Nicole’s Story101 eCourse) is celebrating her …

 Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around …

The doors of the plane were closing as he hurried down the aisle to find an empty spot in the crowded plane. Michelle and I were attempting a classic “being very busy” stance to protect the sacred middle seat between us when we heard his weathered voice ask if it …

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the word “abide.” It’s used in scripture but not so much in everyday conversation – “If you abide in Me and My words abide in you…” For years, I thought that verse was more a warning than an encouragement, more about “better make …