The four people I love most spend their days inside the bricks and mortar of public school buildings. As a high school teacher, I do too. I’ll never forget my 1st grade son coming home one day, lip quivering, talking about a lock-down drill. “They can see us, Mom,” he said. “We can’t all fit behind the bookshelves and the bad guys can see us.” After reassuring him with a confidence I did not feel and putting him to bed, I dissolved into tears. “Why should our kids even have t

Ever hit a wall where prayer feels like a one-way conversation with an apathetic listener? Years of infertility can skew our view of God, making it seem like our only recourse against the Almighty is to end the conversation. I've been there. However, feelings cannot be our only truth bearer. In fact, emotions often keep us stuck in patterns of unhealthy and self-defeating thinking. Nothing is going to change, so why bother? Photo by Quentin Keller on Unsplash As believers, we