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…
Category Archives: charitable giving
Win an iPad and help our teen mom ministry!!
As many of you know, I am in full time ministry working with teen mama’s in my local area {a cause close to my heart as I was a teen mom myself}. Berkeley County, WV is an area rich with Civil War History, beautiful mountain views and boasts an affordable cost of living within driving…
Heart for Haiti
I will never forget hearing of the mass devastation caused by the earthquake in Haiti last year. I was in New York City with some blogging friends, visiting the Martha Stewart show, without a care in the world. To turn on the television and see the absolute ruin of so many lives crushed me. I…
The Radical Experiment- Part Four
Step Four: Give of our time in another context. Pre-Radical: We have taken our children to serve in soup kitchens and nursing homes over the years. It was something to do together and our thought was to give them a glimpse of how blessed they are and to introduce them to the concept of giving…
The Radical Experiment- part three
You can read the other parts of this series here, here and here. Step Three: Sacrifice our money for a specific purpose. Pre-Radical: We have been a family that tithes no matter what since we were baby Christians. Yet, our concept of giving was not based on sacrifice. We gave of our excess. We gave…
Medicare and Privilege
Yesterday, something came in the mail for me. It looked like this… Many emotions swirled in my mind and heart. Most of them related to self pity about my disability(s) and the seeming prematurity of needing Medicare. I loathe self pity. So, I turned to God for an attitude check. He is always faithful in…
The way He works
I fret. I worry. I try to fix in my own strength. I scheme. I plan. I frustrate myself and get frustrated with God. “Why aren’t You moving faster on this?”, I arrogantly ask. Then, He shows up, in ways bigger than I had imagined or prayed for. Less than a month ago I met…
Christmas Warrior
I’m a Christmas Warrior for BLAKE. Is that not the cutest face you have ever seen? I have committed to praying that this little guy finds a forever family and fundraising for his adoption fund this month. The Bible has a lot to say about caring for widows and orphans…to my count, this mandate is…
Much ado about mums
So what is the difference between someone who willfully indulges in sexual pleasures while ignoring the Bible on moral purity and someone who willfully indulges in the selfish pursuit of more and more material possessions while ignoring the Bible on caring for the poor? The difference is that one involves a social taboo in the…
God is worth it
A big pot of chili bubbles on my stove. My children have never known hunger. 26,000 children around the world will die, TODAY, from starvation. We have seven Bibles in our home. People have to smuggle Bibles into their homes and try to understand the Word in a language they do not speak. Men caught…
