Category: Friendship
Sometimes the Lesson You Prepare Isn’t the Lesson At All
It took me 120 days to finish. After countless hours, disappointments and prayer, I completed the last page of the curriculum for the women’s retreat. Five sections to cover in two days, with five women presenting the information. I …
The Day I Let Animosity Go
Forgiveness is not easy. It requires a lot of time, patience and most of all grace. Often we don’t realize how much work it takes. It isn’t only about the person we need to forgive either. We have …
Books of 2017: Present Over Perfect
We find as we get older it is as hard as when we were in high school. Women are judgmental creatures, and we don’t do a lot of changing for one another. When we need something, it …
Approaching Christmas
Approaching Christmas, I am counting down to my favorite things about this coming weekend. Christmas at my parents’ house. Christmas with our own children and grandchildren. Christmas with some very good friends. A movie tradition with my husband. …
An Open Letter to Cancer
You have come in like a vengeance and stolen our lives. I see you, snaking you way through our friends and family, like the serpent in the garden, tricking Eve just when she was most vulnerable and alone. …
Respecting My Single Friends
I read a lot of things. I have a lot of single friends. I have to be honest- I do not envy them one bit. Hubs and I were married right after I graduated high school- in September. …
Loving a Friend at all Times
Proverbs 17:17 “A friend loves at all times, and and a brother is born for a time of adversity.” A friend loves at all times. I had a hard time believing this, as I drove down the …
Christian Mean Girls
We have all seen it happen. Maybe we have been on the receiving end of it, maybe we were the perpetrator. That moment when a “good Christian woman” turns into a mean girl. It happens to everyone in …
Today I am a Contributing Author
Today my contributions begin for a wonderful new website called The Glorious Table. If you haven’t seen this yet, you must go over there and show these writers some love. Everyone is so authentic, and everyone is coming …
There Was That One Weekend….
I don’t even know how to express the importance of Women’s Christian Community . I don’t know how to paint a picture of it either. Then there was that one weekend…. My heart was pounding with excitement, …
