Well friends, yesterday I wrote about why I started this writing challenge; today I will tackle the questions of “What?” I had not planned to share this post, but decided to publish it so those of you who follow me will know what to expect and can hold me accountable...
I have started a new challenge. I know, I know… tomorrow begins the busiest season of the year, and most of us are still in a turkey coma from Thanksgiving dinner. There are trees to trim, gifts to buy, cookies to make, and carols to sing. The calendar is...
Well, this second blog post in this series has taken much longer than I hoped. I actually had it almost finished before I published the first one, but I have been having some computer issues and somehow it disappeared. At first, I just lost part of it, but now the...
Our East-coast family of six just returned from a 17 day trip out West, which included 3 plane rides, 2,000 driving miles, 5 states, 4 hotels (plus 3 relatives' homes), 3 National Parks, 2 theme parks, 1 elk, and lots of hiking. Whew!! As our oldest daughter begins...
Last weekend, my husband and I took our oldest daughter to visit Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky (but that's another blogpost entirely!). Before we left, we stopped by the campus bookstore and I purchased a devotional book, This Day with the Master, written by...
You may not know this about me, but when I was in college and my early twenties, I wrestled with a call to full-time mission work. After serving on several short-term mission teams in a few different countries, I had fallen in love with the people and cultures of...
We had beautiful weather for the last week or so here in North Georgia. Sunshine, 80 degree temps, and beautiful blue skies have us all aching for summer to arrive and school to be out. But a few days ago, after another beautiful almost-summer day, I headed off to...
(Author's note: I wrote this several years ago on New Years Eve, but thought it was appropriate to post today, on Mother's Day. Thanks be to God for the indescribable gift of allowing me to be a mom! It is, by far, the hardest and best role I've ever had. Oh, and the...
I woke up this morning considering how the disciples must have felt on this day in between. The shock. The emptiness. The broken dreams. The loneliness. This isn't how it was supposed to be. And betrayed by Judas? He was one of us, one of our friends! He walked with...
I love serving with teenagers. More than that, even, I love that my husband and I have teenagers of our own. But so often, in both cases, my heart just breaks when I hear these young people feeling alone, or left out, or different. I know that feeling. We ALL know...
You've heard it before. "It takes a village to raise a child." The Church calls it being in "Community." My friend, Leah, calls it her "People"... You know the ones; the people who show up for you. The ones you laugh with, hang out with, and share food with. The...
I take it back. All those bad things I have said from the first second I heard about “fidget spinners,” I take them all back. Well, okay, not all of them. In fact, not even most of them. I still think they are horribly distracting and have no place in a classroom or...