Pain can feel like protection. If I hold it tight, no one can tell me to move on. No one can rush me. No one can take what's left. I'm guessing I'm not the only one who has held pain this way. Close to the chest. Quiet. Guarded. Some days it feels like the last piece...
An Ordinary Morning in Texas It was June 2021. We had moved from Seattle to Tennessee in the middle of the pandemic. After months of screens and isolation, I was finally going somewhere. I was going to see people. In person! The National Religious Broadcasters...
How does fall arrive in your heart? I love fall, but out here in Tennessee, the stores have been decorated for fall and selling fall decor since August, when school went back in session, and that is a little too early for me. I have not started with the “Happy Fall,...
When You Don’t Have Any “Hang In There” Left People say it all the time: "Hang in there." I know they mean well. But there have been days when I don't have any “hang” left in me. God tells me something different! He tells me over and over that He is holding...
The dress hung where she could see it every day. For months. My sister Jolene was getting married, and Annie, who was four years old, was going to be her flower girl. She had a very important job. Get the path ready for Aunt Jolene. We talked about what a very special...
Thirteen days changed our family's history. That's how long we had from the day Annie went into the ER on August 11 until she passed away on August 24, 2023. She was 29. The cancer that took her was one none of us knew was there. I sat down with Greg Buffkin to talk...
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