Try to Love Better

In SOULFULL, I write that our relationships are our spiritual legacy. If Heaven was tallying a report card of my performance, you would see many scenarios where I did not show up with my best self. Tired, stressed, hurt, and self-focused  are not favorable conditions

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A Cure for the Winter Blues

Several years ago, I visited a special art exhibit of Pablo Picasso’s paintings in Paris. The show was curated around colors that reflected the artist’s mood and style during significant periods of his career. For example, the years 1901-1904 represented Picasso’s Blue Period. Every work

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Pray for an Epiphany

As a writer, I am always hoping and praying for an epiphany. Some new insight, a revelation of truth, maybe a spark of surprising creativity, but a divine jump taken in my faith journey would be the best. Epiphanies are divinely sent. Heaven waits for

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A New Year

2024! Do you feel a mixture of trepidation, anticipation and hope like I do? There will be moments ahead when our hearts will clutch in fear for those we deeply love. Uncertainty is always lurking but faith will carry us through. God has marvelous things

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You Have A Part to Play

We each have a role to play in the eternal Christmas story that God is writing and directing. Who have you been cast to play this year? The expansion of love is the purpose. If you still have a breath, God needs you to enter

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Gritty Hope

Today marks the beginning of the Christian season of Advent. The early Church carved out four weeks to prepare the mind, body and spirit for that mystical event when God crossed the boundary between heaven and earth to come be with us. On that first

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Turkey Chili

It's Thanksgiving week! I am so excited to welcome my kids home from college, my parents, and sister Harrison and her family for the marathon week of food, fun, fellowship, and football. I am making a big pot of turkey chili for the Wednesday night

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Practice Resurrection

I am a huge admirer of the saint, Archbishop Desmund Tutu, who said, “I believe with a steadfast faith that there can never be a situation that is utterly totally hopeless. Hope is deeper and very close to unshakeable. To choose hope is to step

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