Remembering Our Caregivers

Remembering Our Caregivers

From Underwater: When Encephalitis, Brain Injury and Epilepsy Change Everything. “Due to brain injury, he has the mental capacity of a three-year-old.” I heard those words from the TV morning news while eating breakfast at a hotel. I was soon traveling to two events...
Knowing and Accepting Limitations

Knowing and Accepting Limitations

From Equilibrium: 31 Ways to Stay Balanced on Life’s Uneven Surfaces. Living with epilepsy has taught me much about limitations. We all have some. Find yours. I need to take my medicine right on time. I need to avoid exhaustion, stress, bright lights, flickering...
Refusing to Travel Alone

Refusing to Travel Alone

From Equilibrium: 31 Ways to Stay Balanced on Life’s Uneven Surfaces  Who are you traveling with in this season’s narrative? Life is a lengthy and bumpy journey. Traveling alone is not safe. It is not wise. It is not necessary. Stories in the Bible might focus...
What is Church?

What is Church?

From Equilibrium: 31 Ways to Stay Balanced on Life’s Uneven Surfaces  What is church? Not a building or a service or a day or a time. It is a collection of people gathering together to worship God and develop relationships with Him and one another. The...
Early Thanksgiving 

Early Thanksgiving 

From the book Equilibrium: 31 Ways to Stay Balanced on Life’s Uneven Surfaces. Giving thanks might come easy some days.  Many days—or often it might seem like most days—maintaining a thankful attitude isn’t simple.  But we can make it intentional. It...
Celebrities for Jesus

Celebrities for Jesus

Celebrities for Jesus by Katelyn Beaty  This is not an official book review. I’ve written many of those for various magazines and websites.  This is more a confession. My honest reflections about a book—a book I would give a high grade in quality of work and...