It was never the title she would have chosen for her op-ed in Christianity Today. The titling alone created an uproar. People who misunderstood. People who never read the rich, insightful piece. People who dolloped criticism rather than compassion. “Stop Sending...
Someone you know receives dreaded news. A diagnosis. A divorce. Unemployment. A major loss. You may feel ill prepared and unequipped to enter into someone’s crisis. You tell yourself you don’t know the person that well. You count up the months and years since you lost...
Sitting in my office, I can hear the soft, rustling sounds emerging from a nearby room. My beloved husband, Leif, and our stellar office manager, Jessica, speaking in hushed tones. Though I can’t hear specific words, I know what they are whispering about… Me. That low...
Much of the teaching I’ve heard on joy over the years is oversimplified. I remember those days in Sunday school learning that JOY is spelled Jesus, Others, Yourself. While that made perfect sense when I was 9, I’ve seen how distorted that can become as an adult. I...
It’s finally here. I had been studying joy for a year. Putting the finishing touches on book about joy—just two weeks from turning it into the publisher—when I received the diagnosis. I had been pursuing and activating joy in my life in the relatively good...
