It’s Not Your Home that’s the Heart of Hospitality

It’s Not Your Home that’s the Heart of Hospitality

Hospitality was the overriding theme of last week’s Allume conference: both hospitality in your home and on your blog. But the final night I received a visible lesson in where its home truly lies: in your heart. One of the attendees, Amanda, planned an...
The Gift of Reasonable Expectations

The Gift of Reasonable Expectations

My sister asked me to photograph her wedding just two months after I got my first DSLR. Boy, was I nervous. I carried Scott Kelby’s digital photography books in my camera bag and read them every spare moment; drove to Nashville to attend a NAPP (now KelbyOne)...
When Your Faith is More Than Head Knowledge at (in)courage

When Your Faith is More Than Head Knowledge at (in)courage

“No one wants to talk about God,” he says, and something in my heart breaks both for him and the world into which he was born. In a culture obsessed with knowing the latest celebrity gossip, taking the perfect selfie, and living in the moment instead of for the...
The Gift of Rest

The Gift of Rest

It wasn’t my intention to start a 31 days series and let it fizzle after 10, but keeping up with that schedule showed me what I’d otherwise missed: I’m burned out right now—physically and mentally—and the late nights spent writing made it worse. I...
When We Look for Our Points of Intersection

When We Look for Our Points of Intersection

My hometown hosted the Arkansas Oklahoma State Fair, one of my fondest childhood memories. My family owned a piano company and my daddy tuned the pianos for the acts that performed when the fair came to town. If it was open, we were there. As a teen I was too cool for...

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