Sometimes overseas, I felt like a stretched-out rubber band. I felt the loss of any emotional elasticity to pop back into place, to be okay again.

Three years ago, I began having chronic migraines–the kind of chronic that would last for weeks on end. I would gather with friends, those I was discipling/mobilizing, and my own family with what felt like needles in my forehead, nausea flooding m...

Hi, my name is Mandy, and I’m a control freak. Anyone else?

When I was younger, I rarely worried about the future. I had plenty of time ahead of me, or so I thought. Retirement? It would work itself out. Besides, it was so far away.