Friday I went to the grocery store. There was a points promotion. I spent close to an hour toting my two little girls, collecting everything on my list. I got to the checkout and had no money! Monday I went back to the grocery store. Re-collected everything on my list, double checked that I had…
My eyes weep with the tears of the weary. My works for You crumble as dust through my fingers – worthless. I cry out for understanding yet peace and comfort elude me. My heart is torn within me as I strive to serve you faithfully and fail again. O LORD, draw me nigh unto You….
You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. Dr. Suess All of us know what it means to be attracted to someone for their physical qualities. In fact, the entertainment industry very carefully shapes our perception of attractiveness and then fulfills it leaving every day…
Today, I opened up my Facebook and the first thing I saw was a post listing my memories from years gone by. Facebook is full of “stuff” and often, I just delete it and keep going. This morning, I decided to take a stroll down memory lane. My memories for today? Time with friends, a…
After recent travels, I have been home for three weeks. In those three weeks, I have not had a single day that didn’t belong to someone else. I was running children, fulfilling tailoring and quilting contracts, teaching leadership courses, participating in workshops and doing all of the normal wife and mother things that wives and mothers…
Did you ever do something half-heartedly? Are you a multi-tasker? Highly skilled in working on two or 20 things at once? Reading in Deuteronomy, there are a number of places where we are told to do something with ALL of our effort and resources. In fact, when I checked, the NIV cited 167 times when…