My Books
Hang out with me long enough, and you’ll find out that all I really want to do in my work is write books, read books, and talk about books — preferably while traveling. I’m so honored I get to do all these things! I’m currently working on fiction, and I can’t wait to share it with you*. In the meantime, here’s what I’ve written so far...
*psst… I am sharing my current novel here and there when the Spirit moves via my newsletter.
Contemplative Christians have long practiced a ritual called examen, a simple reflection on how God works throughout an ordinary day. When you practice this short, twice-daily thought exercise in the morning and evening, you’ll be better focused on gratitude, grace, and greater truth.
First Light & Eventide: A Daily Gratitude Journal
In a world that celebrates indulging our whims whenever we want, practicing the traditions of Lent is countercultural. When we welcome the temporary suffering of Lent, we swim upstream in a culture that goes with the flow.
Bitter & Sweet:
A Journey Into Easter
Advent is our invitation to rest in the already-not yet anticipation of the God incarnate, who will one day right all the wrongs of the world. Yet he already came, 2,000 years ago, as a fragile baby.
Already, not yet. …We live in the middle, where we're invited to wait with hope when we prepare for both the celebration of the Nativity of Jesus and the eventual time when Christ will, one day, make all things new.
Shadow & Light: A Journey Into Advent
Through lantern festivals in Thailand, three-foot-wide Venetian passageways, a community of strangers in Zimbabwe, and beyond, I wanted to dance between wanderlust and rootedness; to be both lost and at home in the world.
This is the story of how my family and I spent an ordinary school year in an extraordinary way: circumnavigating the earth to see, firsthand, the places we’d always wanted to explore.
It took nine months, five backpacks, four continents, thirty countries, three kids, one husband, & a lifetime of lessons.
At Home in the World: Reflections on Belonging While Wandering the Globe
What would it look like to live slowly in an efficiency-obsessed culture? In this book, I explore the rhythms of life I learned from living in Turkey—a relationship-oriented culture—and ask whether they can be replicated stateside.
Within food, work, education, travel, and entertainment, there is a way to live slowly—but you have to roll up your sleeves.
Notes From a Blue Bike: The Art of Living Intentionally in a Chaotic World
Do you really need all that stuff, that square footage, that crammed schedule?
Editors asked me to write this first book while I was living cross-culturally, so I shared my thoughts on the Western obsession with our Stuff, followed by concocting a ten-day plan to simplify a home in the midst of real life.