Seeing as this is the time of year when my husband and I tended to go visit Hawaii, I decided to watch a Hallmark movie that I had recorded that was set in Puerto Rico. And there were palm trees and a beach and sunburned feet. It was a fun movie. Even with the hurricane.…
Your mind races. So Your heart races. Then Your chest is tight. And You have to remind yourself to breathe. And remind yourself to breathe. And remind yourself to breathe. Did that make you anxious just reading about it? It made my heart speed up a little bit. I think I've been dealing with anxiety…
It's been a rough winter over here. Not weather-wise, but mood- and circumstance-wise. Every now and then there are things that bring me hope and help me keep going. This picture is one of them. This is a shoot on an orchid that I adopted. It was lonely and very sad looking at the store.…
I've invited a few people to be guest contributors on my blog. Only one of them, so far, decided to take me up on that. That would be my dad. So, you'll notice the difference in style and voice, etc. This is an excerpt from a sermon that he preached a few months ago. I…
This feels like a fitting subject for the week of Valentine's Day. We all have dreams that haven't been realized. Maybe you don't think that's you. You have your spouse, your 2.3 kids, the family dog, the house with the white picket fence, the amazing career or non-career. And that's awesome. But I'm sure you've…
Maybe you've been snowed in since October. Maybe you've just survived Snowpocalypse East Coast 2019. Maybe you're now in Snowpocalypse West Coast 2019. And maybe you don't have any snow at all. What is snow? What are some things you think about doing in the snow? You could build a snowman. I saw these on…
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The darkness can be a good thing, you know? It is only in knowing the darkness, experiencing the darkness, that we are more able to appreciate the light. When we experience grief and sorrow, joy becomes all the sweeter. It's a hard thing, though, to not fight the darkness in some of its forms: grief,…
We took an afternoon jaunt to the beach. The guys wanted to fish in the surf. So I walked the beach and I read my book in the truck when I got cold. Then there was hot tea and pad thai for dinner. Books. Beach. Tea. Pad Thai. Good day.
Stick with me here. I'm not talking about classroom discipline or how to discipline your child or your dog. We're talking spiritual disciplines. Like meditation, prayer, fasting, stewardship, study, contemplation, confession, solitude, gratitude, self-examination, silence, and celebration. Before you say that these don't sound spiritual in the Bible sense or maybe you really don't like…