Today we begin our step-by-step journey toward Christmas. Often we feel the snowball effect of one thing rolling into another as we try to survive the busyness of the season. One way to slow ourselves and provide a shift…
November 2016
I am a rule follower. I am so glad that God doesn’t live by the rules I am convinced we need to live by. Rules are good. They have purpose. God gave 10 great ones to live by. …
Disappointed—sometimes it happens when I don’t manage my own expectations. Other times, I experience it because something doesn’t live up to its potential, not directly affecting me, but it could have been so much more. This word best sums…
A Story, we all have a story. There is a part of my story I don’t share very often. Mostly because it was hard, is hard. When sin touches your life in a profound way, but it is not…
Airplane tickets, rental car and a hotel, all to surprise a niece who needed some love. That’s family. Sixteen people surrounding a table filled with taco fixings again on a Saturday night. That’s family. Huddled around a medical bed…