Click below to listen to an audio version of this post on my Candidly Kendra podcast: Every year the elementary school that my boys have attended for a combined twelve years holds a spring track-and-field day. It’s adorable. The kindergartners take turns jumping in sack races, the first graders throw each others’ shoes and race […]
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Best-Laid Plans Gone Awry
Part 1: Our Loving, Merciful, Faithful, Good, and Compassionate God Well, 2020, you’re really outdoing yourself. We were getting into the early spring groove, the major holidays were behind us, and the sun was beginning to shine. And then, whammy! You took our well-laid plans and flushed them down the toilet. Many are the plans […]
When Your Prayers Bounce Off the Ceiling
Rubber Ceiling Syndrome. Have you ever experienced that? Your devotional times feel empty or worse yet, depleting. Your prayers bounce off the ceiling. The Bible feels like it’s written in pig latin. Where is God? Because honestly, if God isn’t going to show up I’d rather waste my time on Netflix than waste my time […]
Faith in Times of Insecurity (Is That You, ‘Rona?)
I don’t want to get COVID-19. Some people I know have caught it by now, and although sometimes it’s mild, sometimes it sounds truly terrible. But I’m also afraid of the possibility – and the responsibility – of passing it to anyone who has a terrible time with it. So I’m questioning everything. Was I […]