Relationships are complicated. The more I read, the more I find out just how amazing the connection between people can be. Did you know that if you watch a loved one eat, for example, or see him look sad, the eating or sad parts of your brain are activated? Did you know that if you […]
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Review: The Peaceful Wife by April Cassidy
When April Cassidy, a driven, perfectionistic, controlling type A person, got married, she didn’t realize that the very qualities that led to her success in the workplace were a handicap in her marriage. In The Peaceful Wife she shares what it took her years of misery to find out: how to apply the biblical view […]
Review: Susanna Don’t You Cry by Zachary McIntire
Ever since the horrible day his father, Ross, walked out, Chuck Kincaid’s mother, Susanna, has been a wreck. And despite Chuck’s best attempts at parenting Kelly, his little sister has been drifting into the wrong crowd. Chuck knows who is to blame for all this—his father— and he hates him. But life continues. Mother and […]
Noticing Miracles
Life is full of miracles, but we so seldom see them. Especially when daily details discourage us, dragging our eyes downward, or pain stuns us, blinding us to blessings. Yes, it is so easy to focus on everything but the good gifts God gives us, on the irritating, the mundane, the horrifying, or even the […]
Just a Glass of Water, and a Smile
Recently, during an exceedingly difficult afternoon, a stranger kindly asked me if I needed anything. A glass of water, perhaps? I hadn’t realized I was thirsty, but he had. He saw the need for water—and the need for encouragement—and provided both. Just a simple glass of water. Just an encouraging, compassionate smile. But it added […]