10th Anniversary Edition of How to Love Your neighbor now available!
What a joy to introduce you to my new friend, Candace Cofer! We met when she invited me to be on The Good Day Podcast to talk about Can I Borrow a Cup of Hope? Candace is the most organized pre-planning person I know, and our episode was recorded 14 months in advance...
Can you believe it has been a decade? Ten years ago, when I first released How to Love Your Neighbor Without Being Weird, the biggest hurdle we faced was social awkwardness. We were worried about being the "weird" neighbor who baked cookies that nobody asked for or...
Travel with Jesus along the "Via Dolorosa," which means "Way of Suffering," as you remember His route to the cross during Holy Week. I've combined the Easter accounts from Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John into one continuous reading. Reminiscent of the stations of the...
Do you want to love your neighbor but are unsure where to start? Does your heart ache for the homes around you, yet it seems impossible to connect with the people inside? Well, here’s your plan: host a Neighborhood Cafe! Here’s how the Neighborhood Cafe works: Invite...
I wrote this poem one year when we donated gifts to a local charity instead of giving presents to our friends and their children. Adapted from the classic "A Visit from St. Nicholas" by Clement Clarke Moore, feel free to use it if you adopt the idea yourself! ‘Twas...
I got greedy at Thanksgiving. Not just for juicy slices of turkey and heaping piles of mashed potatoes, or my special cranberry salad - no, I'm ashamed to admit, I got greedy for my family. I wanted them all to myself, so I was a little disappointed when another...
My husband says it... Sitting on the same sofa isn't the same as spending time with your spouse. When his person is buried in their phone (that would be me), my husband feels ignored and unimportant. It's his biggest pet peeve when people are lost in the virtual world...
I once invited 130 neighbors over for coffee. Yikes! You can bet I whispered prayers as I pushed the mop and dusted the furniture getting ready for my Neighborhood Cafe Open House.That's a lot of people, but in my experience very few of my neighbors will actually...
I don’t know about you, but the thought of knocking on my neighbor’s doors to invite them to Bible study makes my knees knock. Why would God ask me to do a crazy thing like that? Surely He knows it’s not my calling to go calling on my neighbors. A Cafe Called Home He...
Guest post by Leslie McLeod The slim, white-haired Asian man walked with an air of dignity at odds with the goofy-looking mutt at the end of his leash. I’d begun crossing their path during evening walks with my own goofy-looking mutts, creating an instant, unspoken...
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