Courage

full moon and storm clouds

Before this “day after” the Boston Marathon bombing had a chance to see morning light, my eight year old daughter called out for me.  It was a nightmare that woke her from her sleep.   I always ask, in my bleary state, for my children to tell me about the dreams that startle them awake and scare them enough to call me in.   Hopefully telling them out loud can help us let them go or find a new way to finish them.   Sometimes we look for reassurances in our waking world for what we would do if ever… Read the full post

Calling Audibles Part XVII: Game Plan

Game strategy drawn on blackboard

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the LORD For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts ~Isaiah 55: 8-9 Lots of people ask me what football coaches do while they are working all those long hours.  “What could they possibly be doing in there for all that time?”  Early on in our marriage, I use to ask my husband, John, the exact same question periodically.  During his years in the NFL the answer was mostly “watching film”… Read the full post

Look Up

Asian baby

Look Up “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers,  they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you… Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. I am about to do a new thing; now its springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.”     –Isaiah 43:1b-2,… Read the full post