ARTICLES BY COLLEEN CHAO

Category: Trust

Beauty

The good news about bad news

In the past decade, going to the doctor has felt a bit like guzzling apple cider vinegar while walking barefoot on hot coals. Not exactly

Colleen Elisabeth Chao March 31, 2019

Cancer

Three months of chemo

Well, tomorrow is Round 12, my final chemo infusion. It was three months ago today that I went in for my first infusion, with a

Colleen Elisabeth Chao April 12, 2018

Beauty

Where your soul will grow beautiful

As women, we really don’t ask for much. We’d just like to be healthy. Financially secure. Marry a great guy. See our children grow up

Colleen Elisabeth Chao September 19, 2017

Stories

“My undoing. (Your beginning.)”

I found it buried in a dusty old box of files, wedged between nondescript folders like “Wells Fargo” and “Car Repairs.” How did something so

Colleen Elisabeth Chao June 7, 2017

Bible study

Complain, weep, wonder, and worship.

Summer is an odd duck. School lets out, Instagram becomes a film reel of beach days and vacas, and by July 31st Halloween paraphernalia is

Colleen Elisabeth Chao May 26, 2017

Hope

Painting

My dirty, sweaty 5-year-old is sitting on the back porch happily humming and throwing fistfuls of birdseed on the lawn. We’ll have an aviary here by

Colleen Elisabeth Chao May 1, 2017

white dried and cracked ground texture with dry plants

anxiety

If you’re feeling insecure….

In his book The Importance of Being Foolish, Brennan Manning writes: “What keeps me feeling insecure are my addictive emotional needs, which must always be satisfied. When

Colleen Elisabeth Chao March 8, 2017

Bible study

I don’t have to scream anymore

They’d been running around in circles all morning, yelling, begging their god to answer them—to no avail. So they screamed louder. Louder and longer. And

Colleen Elisabeth Chao March 6, 2017