I decided to try something new today. A couple of my friends have been doing it on their blogs, and today it seems to fit with what God has been showing me this week. It’s called High Five for Friday, and I will be linking up with From My Grey Desk. This week I’ve felt […]
A Call to Pray
Prayer is powerful. That simple little sentence is something that is easy to say, yet it hardly begins to encompass the depth of its truth. God speaks of the power of prayer throughout His Word. He took time to teach His followers how to pray. He led by example multiple times during His years on […]
Every Day Worship
Dear Father, I’ve been a mess lately. I feel raw, emotional, unworthy, and unattractive. Instead of meditating on the beauty of a life growing inside me, I note the chubbiness of my cheeks, the balloon-like ankles if I’ve been on my feet for too long, and the ever-tightening fit of my wardrobe. Somewhere in the […]
Hope with a Generation
Moms worry. We question why those sweet children of ours struggle with certain milestones. Did that cough coronate the reign of an illness in their sweet little bodies? Are we teaching them enough and in the most effective way? How about the nutrients they miss out on when they refuse to eat certain healthy foods? […]
Discovering and Choosing True Friendship
From the beginning of mankind, God saw that we had a need only able to be fulfilled by each other. When God, for the first time since creating the world uttered the words, “It is not good,” it was after observing Adam’s aloneness. In His sovereign wisdom, God knew beforehand that He would create Eve, […]
Thankful for my Gardener
I look at my dying garden. It’s been a rough year, and I can see it by the evidence displayed in my unkempt garden. I wanted to give up on many other things, but my little patch of mangled plants is who took the beating. Thankfully, God gave me a gardener to come along my […]
On People Pleasing
There was joy in his leap. He didn’t look around to see who was watching, he simply seized the opportunity to embrace one of the great things about this season, threw his hands in the air, and jumped. Because I’m a people pleaser by nature, sometimes I miss moments like these. Instead of soaking in […]
Look: The Dream Lives On
Friends, I have been extra silent around here lately because I’ve been working hard. The book is almost done! (Excuse me while I do a happy dance.) I know that my friends are probably sick of hearing me make references to this book, but this thing has become a huge part of my life right […]
The Story of my Smell
How do I smell to God? I didn’t give it much thought until one night not long ago at bedtime. That’s when the funny little tradition of smelling books before reading them started. Dash crawled up on my lap with a library book we’d just picked out earlier that day. It was an older book, […]
Fall Dinner Ideas
I get in the mood to spend a lot of time in the kitchen when fall arrives, and this year has been no exception. Because I love a good recipe exchange, I thought I’d share a few of my favorite fall dinner recipes that I’ve come across. All but one of them is a crock […]