by Melanie Makovsky | Dec 4, 2022 | Flesh: what our bodies tell us about God
Much like learning to walk with a sprained ankle, living with physical and emotional health challenges takes balance and practice. I’m convinced that our own mental and emotional health has an immeasurable impact on our physical health. This may work in reverse as...
by Melanie Makovsky | Nov 22, 2022 | Flesh: what our bodies tell us about God
Have you ever noticed that when you start out with the intention of writing or talking with someone about something you’ve learned, God sets you up so that you experience it yourself in the process? For example, in 2010 my husband had plans to make a major career...
by Melanie Makovsky | Nov 1, 2022 | Flesh: what our bodies tell us about God
My greatest frustrations in life always come from the weakness of my body. When I consider the incomprehensible fact that God designed and fashioned our minds and bodies, with all their complexity in function and all their ability in thinking and learning, I realize...
by Melanie Makovsky | Oct 17, 2022 | Fearless
It’s probably abundantly obvious, and I know I’ve said it before too, but I really, really love words. But here’s what you may not know: I like bad words a lot too. Not just swear words, although I admit that I have an affinity for those as well, but angry words. In...
by Melanie Makovsky | Oct 10, 2022 | Fearless
My husband is an ultra-marathon runner. At least that’s the term we both knew for it when he got started doing it. Since then the longer-than-a-marathon events have become known simply as “ultras” and the competitors (if you can call them that) are “ultra runners.”...
by Melanie Makovsky | Oct 3, 2022 | Fearless
I was using writing as a therapeutic exercise before that was ever a thing. I started writing in a diary when I was 6, and after its pages were filled I never threw it away. I kept it and I still have it. I also kept every diary I ever wrote in since then. Now I...
by Melanie Makovsky | Sep 26, 2022 | Shalom
Until about ten years ago I had never heard of Imposter Syndrome, but when someone introduced me to the term I knew exactly the feeling the term describes. If you’re not familiar, imposter syndrome is a newly-coined term for the feeling that one gets when he finds...
by Melanie Makovsky | Sep 19, 2022 | Shalom
My house is a one-level ranch-style home that is around fifty years old but has been well cared for and remodeled a bit in its interior. At the center of my house is the largest room, with an open floor plan kitchen and a large space with a window and a gas fireplace....
by Melanie Makovsky | Sep 12, 2022 | Shalom
When I wrote last week about the multiple inferences contained in the Hebrew word shalom, I realized quickly that any attempt on my part to explain the many implications and nuances of meaning it can have would be pretty inadequate. For one thing, this is a topic that...
by Melanie Makovsky | Sep 7, 2022 | Shalom
How many advertisements have you seen so far today? Think of everything you’ve looked at thus far. Consider commercials on television, on the radio, on podcasts. Ads that pop up in the middle of any good YouTube video. The banner and block ads on just about...
