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“It wasn’t until I heard the Phi Beta Kappa speech about self-doubt that it struck me: the real issue was not that I felt like a fraud, but that I could feel something deeply and profoundly and be completely wrong.”         Sheryl Sandberg I had just started reading...

“When you fall in love with someone, you do things you don’t want to do.” When I heard that comment, it didn’t take me long to think of an experience of doing just that – something I didn’t want to do but did because I love my husband.  He needed his pants fixed, and...

One night last July, my husband was flipping channels and landed on the ESPYs on ESPN.  It happened to be just as they were honoring one of their Sportscenter anchors, Stuart Scott.  I was thankful to not miss this important moment.  I graduated from high school and...

As women, I think all of us have had something about us that we’d like to change, some part of our appearance that we feel self-conscious about.  It seems to me that it really starts - and does so intensely - when we are in middle school, those early teen years when...

As I’ve been meditating on a trust without borders, several of the saints in Scripture who lived this way came to mind. The 12 spies had borders.  Caleb and Joshua had no borders. Many times when the Lord is leading me to do something that brings fear in me, He...

Sometimes it happens in the most unexpected places.  Those times when the Holy Spirit speaks to your heart and moves you almost to tears.  For me on this day it was in the bathroom as I was putting on my makeup and using my Chi.  I was listening to Christian music...