michelle joy waters

At the beginning of the lockdown, I started a list of all the small, daily blessings this new world order was bestowing on our family. I'...

Here we are. Not much has changed. School ended without any fanfare. We held our breath, waiting for the end of "Zoom Gloom," monitoring ...

Happy Mother's Day! The greatest gift this year will be heading back to church on Sunday after seven weeks at home. (Just so you know, I ...

Sometime last week, most of us got the news that our little people wouldn't be going back to school. We all knew this was inevitable, but...

There are two sides to this Corona coin: the simple slowdown most of our lives desperately needed on the one hand, and the fear, anxiety,...

We've come to the end of Lent. And one day we'll come to the end of quarantine too. Ending well is important in any endeavor. Maybe even ...

The days run together in this thing called quarantine. For the first time, what we have in abundance is time. Hour upon hour of time. It w...

More than ever, friends have been asking, "Why did you home school for so long? It's so hard!" There's a long answer to that, and it's no...

We've all seen the funny memes and posts of frantic parents thrust completely and unexpectedly into the world of school at home. Let me g...

As meetings, practices, schools, and travel get cancelled one by one due to the pandemic known as the coronavirus, we find ourselves taki...

Lent is a time to subdue our physical nature in the hope that our oft forgotten spiritual nature will be brought to the surface, refined,...

No one knows exactly how many thoughts we have each day, but it's more than you'd expect: experts say it's up there in the tens of thousa...

Sadly, the time has come. Truth be told, it's long overdue. My beloved Bible—the one that's been with me for the last twenty years—has fa...

He's my PEACE when there is no peace. Jeremiah was having a moment with the leaders of God's people. They were supposed to be lovingly ca...

Thank you for a great day at Level Up: A Life Worthy of the Lord! It was a joy to worship and pray together, spend time discussing God's w...

I've been SO excited to get to work on my messages for Level Up: A Life Worthy of the Lord. I cleared my calendar all day Tuesday and Thu...

It's official: 'woke' has been added to the dictionary. Actually, it happened over two years ago. But as always, I'm behind the times. Th...

It's not a big surprise that the holidays are hard for a lot of us. I've been to three funerals in as many weeks so I'm feeling the weigh...

From our family is a few finals! What I've learned about having a kid in college after just one semester: First, the bad news: They're no...

I heard a great interview the other day with former NFL player turned Life Coach Trent Shelton. The two main take aways were: protect you...