A romp by the lake with my youngest and our dog, Pippin.

My dear friend Stacey runs a company called Chick Lingo. It rocks, folks. I love it! And today she’s offering a sweet sign you might be interested in. The sign is below, and it’s large (18×30) and it retails for $89. We’ll randomly select a winner Monday March 19th. How to enter (4 ways): Choose [...]

The following is a story I wrote about arguing in marriage and how it can mess with us and our children. I pray it blesses you. Please pass it on to anyone who might benefit from it. Mama called me Lightning the day Daddy died. Libby’d been my name ’til that day, the day that [...]

I wrote this in the 90s with a heart to minister to those struggling in their marriages. Please feel free to pass this on to anyone this may bless. (And may it bless you too!) Five Hearts, One Hand Seven-year-old Caleb spent his Valentine’s Day laboriously cutting hearts for Daddy. He fretted about the junk [...]

One of the best teaching I’ve encountered about marriage came through our missionary training one day. One of the trainers talked about a study at the University of Washington, where they studied thousands of couples. They eventually determined what made some marriages happy and long lasting and what made others fizzle. They called it “assuming [...]

Holly is amazing. We met at seminary (when our hubbies were good friends) in 2000. We immediately clicked. Right now Holly and Tom are getting ready to embark on the mission field again. She’s an example to me in so many ways. And she’s one of those people who actually does pray for you. It [...]

Monday I read a tweet by BreakPoint that said: According to the Barna Research Group, three in five “Christian” kids abandon the Church after the age of 15. Eighty-four percent of 18 to 29 year olds who call themselves “Christians” admit that they have no idea how the Bible applies to their occupation. 3 in [...]

The weekend before last, I had the privilege of speaking at a parenting class at Living Word Community Church in Red Lion, PA. There were two main speakers, Carey Nieuwhof, a pastor from Ontario, and yours truly. I really enjoyed Carey’s keynote, but what resonated with me most was a very important, but overlooked point. [...]

My friends Ashley and George who run Tekeme Studios are a picture of reconciliation and healing. Here we are last November when I had the chance to surprise them at their home. I love them. George designed the header for Live Uncaged and does a lot of my design. Ashley? Well, she’s just a little [...]

Twenty-one years ago during what weather forecasters declared “The Arctic Express,” Patrick and I were married in the Seattle area. Not many of our guests could come because the hilly roads became an ice skating ring. Our sound system didn’t arrive, so we danced to a boom box (very quiet and pretty awkward). Our first [...]