Author: Jo Ann Fore

Column Post by Glenda Harbinson The pain ran so deep I didn’t know where it started and couldn’t see an end. I tried to run from it, ignored it, prayed God would take it away. I donned masks in public, not wanting everyone to see the pain in my eyes and know my soul was […]

Column Post by Aj Luck My Keurig had just finished brewing up a perfect cup of coffee. I sat down at my computer and tried to write. My thoughts were scattered and any inspiration seemed fleeting. Gently, my mind began drifting towards an image all too familiar. Silence surrounded me. Slowly tears escaped from my eyes […]

Column Post by Lisa Easterling This is my confession: I’m having an affair with my best friend. The truth is, it’s a pretty deep relationship we’ve been building for several years now, and we spent this past weekend celebrating it. You have to understand why I would be so deeply involved with him. He isn’t […]

Column Post by Laura Hyers In this technological age of tweets and posts and status updates and Tumblogs, and my season of young adulthood full of job applications and mission statements, there’s something nearly everyone wants from me, or you: “Tell us about yourself.” What is it that makes you you? Or me me? What […]

Column Post by Lakin Easterling “Um, don’t hate me, but I did a bad thing.” This is a sentence I frequently speak to my husband, and it always evokes a grin and a chuckle at my use of the word “bad”. See, I’m a bookworm. Always have been, and for the foreseeable future, always will […]

Column Post by Glenda Harbinson Lately I’ve felt God leading me to discontinue a specific medication I’ve been taking for some time now. I come from a long line of depressed women and have the diagnosis of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). For a while I used this medication according to the season, but when switching […]

Guest Post by Friday Child When I was a wee one, my mother always cuddled me and told me that I was her Friday Child—loving and giving. She impressed upon me this was an asset that would make my life maybe not easier, but happier. “Everyone shines in his/her way,” she would tell me. “Look […]

Column Post by Lisa Easterling I heard the ugliness leap out of my own mouth, pulled up just shy of the stove and listened to the words echoing back at me, reverberating off the Tuscan-painted tiles on the backsplash. “Lisa, you are so stupid!” I didn’t even flinch. I wasn’t surprised by it, partly because […]

Guest Post by Elizabeth Buhrke I’m trying to assimilate back into my life but I’m having a hard time. I’ve always had a heart for the poor, but God is stirring me in a way I could never have imagined. I never dreamed of being a mom, but when Isaiah came into my life God […]

Column Post by Laura Hyers I am a preschool teacher. I hang out with two-year-olds for forty hours a week and I change diapers and wipe noses and discipline and teach and celebrate and snuggle and chase and I try more than anything to love. But dang, some days it is hard to love. Hard […]