Christian Womanhood as an Enneagram 1

As an opinionated, often critical, driven and outspoken perfectionist, I’ve known for a long time that my personality type was a difficult one to live with. Recently, I discovered that my particular bundle of traits and sin temptations was one that a whole group of people actually share. I took the enneagram test and landed …

When we try to hide from God

Have you ever brought an angry exchange to a sudden halt because of the presence of another person? A friend or even a stranger walks into the room and suddenly it’s all smiles and ‘how are you’s?’ Our natural concern for what other people think about us acts as a powerful deterrent for sinful behavior. …

God doesn’t need you; He loves you

Recently answering a Bible study question about how Jesus’ love for me changes my life, I found myself writing, “I’m not sure that Jesus really loves me. I think when he thinks about me he sighs.” Now, I’ve been a believer since I was a child, sang “Jesus loves me” with everyone else at Sunday school, …

Let’s Talk About Sex

Disclaimer: For a mature audience. I recently attended my first personal shower. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the concept, this amounts to a group of women showering a soon-to-be-bride with lingerie.  As you can imagine, there was plenty of laughter. In fact, I was struck by how we managed to go an …

God lets us “Cry it out”

We recently weaned our 5 month old daughter from her pacifier, and it involved crying. Lots of crying. Listening to your baby cry without doing anything to intervene is one of the hardest things a mother can do.  You wish more than anything that you could just communicate to them why you are not responding …

Should we be politically left to be pro-life?

There’s an argument going around Facebook now-a-days that pro-lifers should actually be politically left because under Democratic presidents abortion rates have declined at faster rates than under their Republican counterparts.  The idea is that democratic support for the poor alleviate the circumstances that cause women to want abortions.  The thought is usually coupled with some …

Rebuke me, Lord!

Motherhood has felt like a spiritually dry place for me.  The river of spiritual life seems to be always over there, through those woods somewhere, tantalizing me with its little coos and ripples while I stay put watching little ones over here, away from there.  And when little ones are napping or otherwise occupied, halfway on …