I have a loved one who has ADHD.  A lot of people, especially friends and family, do not really know what ADHD is, or the implications of it.  Even for myself, it’s taken a few years to understand it, and cope with it.  I’ve written this article to answer some common questions concerning ADHD. What…

The lightening flashed brightly in the window.  A few moments, and a rumble of thunder.  Oh, Lord, we need rain. This dry and thirsty land.  A dry and thirsty people.  Soak up our sorrows, and hurriedness, our anger and resentment.  Our loneliness and pain.  We need rain. The pain we feel in between the quiet.…

My dad wrote me not long ago, a card for my birthday. He wrote how he remembered when I was 5, and celebrating birthdays at church, in Brooklyn. Bright memories. Now here I am, a mom, with a boy that is 5. People have come up to me and said, “Enjoy this age, it goes…

We all need sabbath rest – ways to recharge.  I don’t believe sabbath rest means recharging spiritually only.  God not only cares about us spiritually, he cares about us as a whole–mentally, emotionally, and physically as well.  In the same way, God does not provide sabbath rest for just our spiritual being.  He wants to…

I get up and be a mom. I try to be a faithful and loving wife. I try to look for the good in it all. I try not to give in to fear. And, when it seems impossible – and so many times it does! – I try to look to the One who…

We all go through it – pain, disappointments, and heartbreaks . . . some so deep that we can’t even share it properly with others (if we share at all).  And, having come from some deep painful experiences of the past, and maybe partly stemming from having a personality of an infj, I remember pain.…

Sometimes it’s a mystery.  Ofttimes, when I’m at my weakest, when it seems God’s most not around, He’s there. Like a sigh, a voice of a friend, or something I’ve seen somewhere that reminded me of Him.