As the minutes passed, my apprehension grew. There I was, sitting in front of 100 women at my church. We were there to learn about the power of prayer and my friend Rachel was leading the class. A few months before, Rachel had approached me about being on the panel. She envisioned us sort of […]
Guest Posts
Share Your Voice to Make a Difference
With a pounding heart, my shaking hand filled out the application for the When A Woman Finds Her Voice book launch team a few months back. I had been blogging only a month and all my insecurities rising to the surface reminded me of that as I explained my desire to participate. Will I be […]
No Narrow Mercies
Special Guest Post by Leslie Leyland Fields It was my first visit to my father in his new nursing home. It had taken two days and four flights to get there. I hadn’t seen him for 8 years. When the divorce was finalized decades ago, he had moved thousands of miles from his children. I […]
The Seeing is the Story
Guest post by Abigail (Abby) Alleman I sit, head bowed low and back arched forward and down, on the slate gray IKEA patio chair. I stare at the overgrown brush of our garden and hear one word: failure. My legs feel the rub, a back and forth itch. The fabric–a spectrum splayed amid tiny-tulip-smattering-over-midnight—is that […]
Every Woman Has a Story
There’s something that happens when silence hangs like shadows, when brokenness stains the spirit, when the lining of hope sheds from the heart. Far too often, lingering emotional hurts block us from connecting heart-to-heart with others and from sharing the message God created us to share. But hiding won’t protect our hearts forever, no […]
When it’s all the things keeping you awake
Column Post by Laura Hyers I got three hours of sleep last night. I don’t say this in the proud way I once did—because I procrastinated and pulled an all-nighter and got some college project done in the nick of time. I say this after a full day of taking care of little ones who […]
When groans are all you’ve got
Column Post by Lisa Easterling “In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will […]