Hope When The Holidays Hurt
A groan erupted from deep within me as another Christmas carol started on the radio. I mentally counted off how many more days until Christmas would be over. Then I […]
How To Exercise Enough Faith To Erase Doubt
It amazes me how my faith can be so strong in certain areas of my life and then appear almost minuscule in others. Anybody relate? Sometimes it seems no matter […]
A Surprising Lesson In How To Let Go of Guilt
Guilt’s snarly voice came mocking. You blew it- again. I thought you were- dependable. Instead, you’ve let everybody down. Even the people you love. And you preach to others about […]
When You Want To Be Someone God Uses
I have noticed something in Scripture lately. There is a big difference between people who want to be used by God and the people God chooses to use. What’s the difference and how do we become the latter?
When Someone You Love Is In The Waiting Room
Not just a medical waiting room. God’s waiting room. They are waiting on God for an answer, for direction, maybe a miracle. And you feel like there’s not much you […]
3 Fascinating Facts About The Death & Resurrection of Jesus I Never Learned At Church
Let’s get something straight from the get-go: I’m not knocking the church. I LOVE my church and I learn something new almost every Sunday. These facts were learned from studying Jewish […]
Princess Bride Theology
Anybody out there like to watch movies? My kids’ current fav is The Princess Bride. They quote the movie as it is playing along, laughing hysterically at scenes they have watched a […]
Why I Want To Shelf The Elf
Go ahead, call me a Grinch or a Bah Humbuger! I’ll take it. I’m just going to be honest- The Elf is wearing me out! As I attempt to prepare my […]
Why Jesus Won’t Rest
My children are working their way through the Bible this summer, reading stories and answering questions about them. The other day, one of the questions was, “What did God do […]
The Fisherman
When our family went camping, they had a volunteer fly fisherman from Cabela’s come and teach all of us city slickers how to bait, cast, and reel. Our son Nathan […]
You’ll Wear This, Right?
This is what happens when I allow my husband to go into Wal-mart alone. He comes out with gifts. This photo here to the right is the latest one. He […]
