For the majority of my adult life, I have struggled with depression. I’ve gone to counseling, been on medications, switched medications, and generally sought healing as best as I have known how. But there are days and weeks when nothing seems to be working. I’ve been stuck in several of those days in a row […]
Day 6 :: Joshua & Judges {Rest & Rebelli
“Be strong and courageous.” These words of the LORD to Joshua rang in my heart this year as we made the Big Move “back home” from Colorado to Minnesota. I have experienced extreme ambivalence about this move. One half of me is ecstatic to be here. I love being near my parents and a couple […]
Day 5 :: Deuteronomy {God of Life}
I had a dream that I shaved off my eyebrows. Panicked, I began digging through my make-up drawer looking for something to draw them back on. I had nothing. This morning, I had to look in the mirror to make sure it wasn’t true! Then I looked up the meaning of the dream: “To dream of […]
Day 4 :: Numbers {The Faithful One}
It was your typical Tuesday morning dash to get out the door: the spilled cereal, the “How many times do I have to tell you to put your underwear on?!”, the forgotten toothbrush… We were late. Again. While exhaling slowly to calm down, I hear my son break the silence in the car, “Mommy, will you […]
Day 3 :: Leviticus {The Holy One (who ma...
Okay friends, who else groans when they think of Leviticus? I have only read the book from front to back once and it is dull. One of those reads where you can’t remember what you just read and at times swear you’ve already read those words before. (Hint: You probably have.) When I asked my […]
Sabbath :: God of Rest
By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done. – Genesis 2:2-3 I’m doing […]
Day 2 :: Exodus {The Rescuer}
When we turn the page from Genesis to Exodus, it is a desperate scene. 400 years after Joseph ruled, the people of God are held in Egypt as slaves by a cruel Pharaoh who fears their numbers. In order to contain the Israelites’ population, their baby boys are being stolen from them to be drowned […]
Day 1 :: Genesis {A God of Promises}
The first words of the Bible burst forward with the hope and joy of what this world is meant to be. Light. Life. Perfection. After speaking the earth, the sun, the soil, the fish, animals, and finally human beings into existence, God looked around at it all and with a contented sigh stated: It is […]
Join ME! “Discovering God in the Old Tes
Months ago, I had this idea that every night I would share a Bible verse on Twitter and Facebook and call it #mamasnightlight. I was good at posting for awhile, but then we moved. And in the emotional fatigue of change and loss and reunions I just couldn’t get my act together. But I need […]