Category: Getting Personal
Dear Church Ladies….with article
A couple weeks ago, I contributed to this website with a letter to the ladies of the church….I love womens ministry…and I really feel the need for it more and more. Follow the link HERE I hope you …
The Jekyll/Hyde within me
There is no amount of coffee that can handle a Monday like today. Today, my dad starts chemotherapy and radiation, and it terrifies me. Every single horrible and worst case scenario that can run through my head has …
Living in the BUBBLE
To ignite true change, you have to ignite something different, something fierce, something that makes you want to get up in the morning and be – different. Over the past few years I have been lighting these fires …
Easter Chance
The Easter eggs are all stuffed, sorted and bagged. Dinner is planned, a grocery list is prepared. Now it is time for me to sit back and pray for the days ahead. Easter is not an easy holiday …
Oh Mary…
I plan on spending a lot of quiet time this week. As I approach Easter and all it means, I prepare for the hustle of a hodge podge mix of family and friends to arrive on my doorstep …
The Things No one Warned Me About: Take Two
“Where are all the towels?” Serious question when you are first married. “I think they are all dirty” I replied, not knowing the impact that was going to have on the rest of the day. You see, I …
Series: The Things No One Warned Me About: Take One
When our oldest son told us he was leaving for Florida the day after his 18th birthday, I was stunned. The few days I had to prepare myself were not at all enough. I soon found myself standing …
When the going gets tough, the tough get Coffee
This morning I relish in the thought of the new found friendships I have been forging over the past 10 days. Friendship can be so hard. I am a hard friend, I know that. Maybe high maintenance, I …
It is the Sanctuary
When I was a kid, we had certain terms for the different places in the church building. And the place where the worship service, sermon and big events happened was always called the “Sanctuary”. For thirty three years …
What is Your “Thing”?
This morning I caught about 15 seconds of the news before I changed the channel. There was a person in her early 30s who wrote an article for a newspaper in New York about women and men and …