by Phylicia | Jan 31, 2020 | Christian Life
How do you talk about the goodness of marriage and still be honest about the hard? I ask this question at the eve of February 1st each year. As I re-read each year’s blog post, written on our anniversary, I see the goodness I took away; I see the little steps to...
by Phylicia | Jan 6, 2020 | Christian Life
Ten years passed in a blink and I almost missed it. I didn’t realize it was a turning of the page, a gentle leaning into a new decade, until an Instagram post stopped me mid-scroll. Ten years. In 2010, I was turning twenty years old, just returned home from...
by Phylicia | Aug 17, 2019 | Books, Christian Life
About a year ago – Geneva was turning one and Adeline was fast approaching three – Josh and I decided family devotions were something we wanted to start loosely structuring around meal times. Plenty has been written about family devotions, mostly for older...
by Phylicia | Jul 19, 2019 | Christian Life
It’s midnight, way past my usual bedtime, but pain meds have a way of keeping me up and making me groggy at the same time. Since breaking my leg in a soccer game three weeks ago, followed by surgery a week later, I’ve had plenty of time to consider what...
by Phylicia | Feb 15, 2019 | Beginner Believer, Christian Life
We are done – all of us – with shallow platitudes. We know they don’t change anything. But where is the line between platitude – “God is enough!” and the truth… that God is enough? So many of us know what God has said about...
by Phylicia | Feb 7, 2019 | Christian Life
We make mention of God, faith, in passing. We offer purpose and moral direction, with a nod to the higher power who created purpose and morality. Just a nod – nothing more. The Christian “God” of Christian self-help is a convenient approver. He...
