alternately titled My New Addiction to Pinterest. The Type A organizer in me has a holiday binder where I would clip ideas and recipes and tradition ideas that I have come across over the years. It has been my planner for memorable holidays over the years. Now, I have a Holiday Inspirations board on Pinterest….
Monthly Archives: November 2011
Tough Love
There once was a girl that wanted to save the world. She had felt searing pain and known heartache so deep that recovery seemed impossible. The desire to shelter others from feeling that way turned into a slight obsession “calling”. She was doing good things in the name of her faith and her heart cried…
Happy Thanksgiving!
To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven. ~Johannes A. Gaertner Our Thanksgiving doesn’t look like I thought it would. But, God knew. Before I was ever born, He knew where I would be and my children would be in…
Am I becoming a hugger?
I am not a “hugger”. Friends and family hear me say this all the time. Personal space is important to me and the only people I enjoy being hugged by are my husband and children. God is growing me in this area, even though I didn’t ask Him to. Working with teen mama’s has me…
Gratitude in Hard Places
Living with chronic illness has taught me many things. Utter, complete dependence on God. {Psalm 70:5} The finite nature of our life. {James 4:14} How our bodies are designed to need true Sabbath rest. {Isaiah 58:13-14} That everyone has a thorn in their flesh, mine happens to be dressed up as lupus. {II Corinthians 12:7}…
Preparing for Thanksgiving
I love autumn. It is my favorite time of year and Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. Sometimes, we are in danger of losing the celebratory nature of this holiday in the there-are-only-SIX-weeks-until-Christmas madness that accompanies this time of year. I fight that temptation hard in our home. A posture of gratitude is crucial…
He is There
Sometimes the pain in this world leaves my heart heavy. Hope seems lost in the flames of house fires, hard to find for the friends that lost their job and face homelessness at the time of year when home means the most, hidden from friends who discover the sex of the heart beating in the…
The Story that Changed my Life
My first Bible was a purple Precious Moments Bible. I loved it and I loved that my name was written on the inside. I grew up listening to Psalty sing praise songs and Adventures in Odyssey play on the radio on Saturday mornings. But I was an adult before I learned the true story of…
Coming from a place of yes
Saying “yes” to God is one of the scariest things I have ever done. Every.single.time. Saying “yes” to God has also put me in some of the most fulfilling and exciting places of my life. Every.single.time. Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their…
The least of these
I have much to write about and tell you. Yet, when I sit here all I can think about are the 143 million+ orphans around the world that need forever families. The over 1/2 million kids in the US foster care system that need their families loved on and repaired. The over 100,000 that can’t…
