We all have different seasons of life. What do we do when it is a more challenging season and we are already exhausted? Do you remember mothering during the typical day in the Preschool/Toddler years? The alarm goes off. You hit snooze, and … your quiet time is skipped. You throw on gym clothes, no…
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We all have a story. It’s called our life. I think of my career often when I look back on my life; probably because so many years of my life were lived at work. It’s amazing when I think that I worked almost 35 years at the same company. That’s about 12,775 days, 306,600 hours…
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When I thought about writing this post over a month ago, I had a very different theme in mind than the post I will be sharing with you today. My husband and I found out at the end of March that we were pregnant! We were shocked and extremely excited! I had just had exploratory…
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There are two things you can always count on in the life of a Christian – seasons will be unpredictable and ever changing, and you are presented with uncertainty around every turn. “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:a time to be born, and a time to…
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I offended someone yesterday. I felt it in my heart as soon as I started reading the email. My heart sank. The more I read the more it kept sinking, as if it had an anchor attached to it and it wouldn’t stop until it landed at the bottom of the sea. The words hurt…
DetailsIt was a Sunday morning and our crib aged daughter wasn’t feeling good. Trey offered to stay at home with her so I could still attend church. As I was getting back into the car to head home, I called to check in and his response is one I will never forget (as I am…
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Just so you know, as I type this, I still have my Valentine’s Day decorations hanging on the doors throughout our house. Poor Easter. In regards to decorations around my house, I rarely show this holiday much love, even though it is one of THE single greatest moments of Christian history. It is the moment,…
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I think un-forgiveness is one of Satan’s favorite tools. There is no better way to multitask for Satan than to get the victim to become a perpetrator. When we are hurt, Satan knows we are our most vulnerable. We get so completely focused on the wounds and nursing them and ourselves, that we take our…
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As with any holiday, death or the loss of a special person, brings about many emotions, the absence of their presence seems magnified. As we approach the one-year anniversary of losing our loved, God-sent stepfather, the reality of death at Easter is front and center. The week following brings about the anniversary of our…
DetailsMonday night was an amazing night watching God be glorified through our circumstances, not in spite of them. Thank you to everyone who helped make the night so special and everyone who took their time to come. The Lord has blessed this ministry beyond our dreams and I can’t wait to see the plans He…
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