Gratitude and Grief
At its best, gratitude is a way to live in the midst of a world of pain and grief, not a way to cut ourselves off from that grief. Gratitude…
At its best, gratitude is a way to live in the midst of a world of pain and grief, not a way to cut ourselves off from that grief. Gratitude…
As easy as it is to rattle off a gratitude list, it's just as easy to rattle off a list of things that cause grumpiness. How is gratitude the antidote…
I’ve recently adopted “embracing our common humanity” as my shorthand for what I am attempting to do with my writing and speaking. If you look back through my blog you…
When I was asked to have classroom conversations with a group of 8th grade students about To Kill a Mockingbird in conjunction with White Picket Fences and the discussion of…
I could not be more excited to tell you about the launch of my brand new website. I hope you will spend a minute (or ten, or far more) checking…
I had a great time talking with Andrew Arndt on the Essential Church podcast about White Picket Fences. He asked great questions that gave me the chance to tell the…
Martha Manikas-Foster of Family Life radio approached me a few weeks ago about an old blog post of mine about Thanksgiving. Back in 2014, I wrote about how Thanksgiving is…
The real privilege of my life has come in learning what it means to love others, that love involves suffering and sacrifice and sleepless nights and tears and heartache and…
A friend mentioned years ago that memoirs go through three stages. First, we live them. Then we write them. And then, once they are out in the world, we receive…
“I am grateful that Amy Julia Becker had the courage to create White Picket Fences. It's such an essential discussion, so relevant and yet somehow so difficult, and I admire…