Just for Women

How an old journey and a brief meal can help us reshape ourselves... and our world.



It can feel like the sky is falling in.

Can feel like the edges of all things sane and good and beautiful and right are being crushed by an indifferent madness.

Can feel like we...

 

 
"I'm sorry happy for you."

It's a weird statement, and perhaps even weirder that I'm the one who said it under the painful circumstances.

A friend updated me about her marriage — that thing that had been in shambles for many, many years. She shared about...

 

How do you cope with a world gone crazy and violent and depressing in the time you are supposed to give thanks?...

 

What we can do to help!

As thousands of Iraqis in the city of Ramadi are fleeing ISIS right this very moment — we said hard things to the North American church yesterday and we all didn't turn away from what's happening. And we're all standing up to defy...

 

My little granddaughter is not yet 2 years old and she hasn't outgrown the "put everything I find in my mouth" stage. Today I pulled a gummy bear out of her mouth that looked like it had been stuck to the bottom of someone's shoe for at least a year. Nothing is...

 

My jammie pants ended up in the dryer... again! At 5'10", I have a hard enough time getting them to reach my ankles without having them shrink. Not wanting yet another Capri-looking set of pajama bottoms, I Googled ways to un-shrink clothes.

One source...

 

"How can I help you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?"
(2 Kings 4:2 NIV)
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I was sitting in my makeshift office one day lamenting over my financial state. After being laid off from a job I held for eight years, I had decided to go into business. My...

 

 
 

Yeah, who knows what they are saying about you, about your choices, about what was right and what was wrong?

Who knows?
But there it is for all the world to see — the ugly gossip, the mean words intended to assassinate right there on
-banned site-®...

 

For everything that happens in life — there is a season, a right time for everything under heaven:

A time to be born, a time to die;


a time to plant, a time to collect the harvest;



A time to kill, a time to heal;


a time to tear down, a time to build up...

 

It's when you came up behind me and put your arms around me in the kitchen last night while I was making food for your Dad.

The way you laid your head on my shoulder and you held me, mama in the daughter arms after all these years.

I reached up and laid my...