What if our sole reason for living was to deepen our understanding of how much we are loved by God? No less. No more. To know that the...

It happens every November, yet I am always surprised that the days get shorter, the mornings get chillier, the leaves fall until branches...

Remember when you could convince your child to do almost anything as long as you had a dum dum or two in your diaper bag? Too bad that...

Sending a child to college can lead to lots of emotional ups and downs, as Praying College Moms know. We need tools to help us navigate!...

College kids have the strangest ideas sometimes, right? Influenced by their professors, their peers, and society at-large, they can...

By now, our college-aged young adults have settled into their routines and (hopefully) so have we. Our families have adjusted to the new...

Lord Jesus, you learned at your mother's knee and, when it came time, you left your home in Nazareth to begin your mission. I bring my...

The contentious election is behind us, COVID vaccines are coming, and we've had an unusual stretch of beautifully warm weather here in...

Fall is in the air! With autumn normally comes cooler nights, falling leaves, and back-to-school. But there's nothing "normal" about...

In this unwelcome season of Covid 19, we have been forced to live with lots of volatility-- in our spiritual lives (social distancing at...

Does it feel like the sky is falling? Fires in Australia, murder hornets, Covid 19, and now civil unrest on our nations' streets. Because...

The virus has forced us down an unfamiliar, narrow path and we don't know what's on the other end. After 6-8 weeks of sheltering in...

Looking at this map for some weekend travel ideas? Who would have thought that when I wrote last month anticipating the "long,...

We are in the middle of the longest stretch of the academic year --January through April-- weeks during which most of our college-aged...

We don't need Santa to show us that we all have some naughty tendencies. The famous (or infamous) New Year's resolution is an opportunity...

In a matter of days, college students will finish their exams and head home for the Christmas holidays, which will be anywhere from three...

Do you know who's coming to Thanksgiving dinner this year? When you welcome your college-aged children to the table they may be...

One of my adult children thinks I live in a bubble, that I look at the world through rose-colored glasses, and that I've lost my grip on...

It was the third week of September before I began to recover emotionally from the experience of dropping my first child off at college....