I was at the end of training for my career when I felt the urgency to move forward in pursuing a relationship with the hope of getting married. To be honest, at that point in my life, the timing seemed late to me. But not to God. This season brought moments of discouragement, tears, and questions.
I don’t know about you, but my Friday evenings are typically relaxing. However, that was NOT the case this past Friday. After snapping photos throughout the school year, I finally compiled them into a slide show for our community’s end of the year celebration. But there I was, minutes before leaving for the celebration, prompted to watch
Sometimes I feel like I live my life in cycles. The work/school week cycle. The cooking/grocery cycle. The laundry cycle. You’re familiar with these cycles right? It’s how I mark my days- that turn into weeks, that turn into months, and before I know it another year has gone by and I feel like all that
My husband and I just celebrated our 18th wedding anniversary this past week. I’ll be honest, after so many years, it’s easy to take each other for granted. No major crisis…just going through the motions of life and tag teaming through each day’s demands. In the blog titled, “Four Conversations which can change your Marriage,”
“How could this happen to me?” “I’m so angry!” “I just want to be left alone.” Have you or someone you know ever endured a difficult circumstance, such as losing a loved one or walking through life altering news? It’s hard to just smile and nod, acting as if everything is “going to be okay”. Well, that’s how
Out of the mouths of babes…and teenagers. I recently hosted a baby shower for a close friend but began preparing months in advance for it, along with the other hosts. A mound of supplies was slowly but surely overtaking my home office. About a month before the shower, a young friend had noticed the stock pile and all the
Friends. Those are the folks we enjoy hanging out with. They add color to our lives in different ways through their personalities, interests, and our commonalities. “Friends make the world beautiful.” Then, there are those who we refer to as close friends. Most of us have at least one. You know, that person who we
Our journey through the Bible this month has taken us through Judges and Ruth. I have to say that when I got through Judges and moved on to Ruth, I did breathe a sigh of relief. I was ready for a little lighter reading than that of Judges. I was ready to read into the
What is your kryptonite? If you didn’t grow up watching “Superman”, you have no idea what I am talking about. Kryptonite was the one thing that would weaken Superman’s powers. I may not have superpowers but I know there are certain things I try to avoid because it isn’t what is best for me. For
Interesting. Intriguing. Inspiring. I always enjoy a great story. Between the characters, the challenges they face, and how they resolve the problem, I am literally all ears. Sometimes, we think that stories are limited to those which become famous such as the Helen Keller story, a blind and deaf woman who became a leading humanitarian in the 20th
Let Them In
We live in an increasingly individualistic society. Being “self-made” is applauded and celebrated. Transparency, vulnerability, and honesty have been replaced by perfectly curated and filtered lives that we post on social media - that portrays
