A mentor taught me years ago the beauty of affirmation. You know.....telling someone the character qualities that stand out to you. Building them up through words of encouragement. It's not flattery because the focus is not on complimenting but on speaking positive truth into someone's life for the purpose of identifying what God is doing in that person. It's like a verbal ... Read More »
April Fool’s 2015 in our household
And I thought April Fool's Day was going to be a total bust this year! Sophie and I have been sick all week with the flu I think? - didn't even think you were allowed to get the flu in the Spring but apparently it's perfectly legal because we've had it since Saturday. When I realized it was April Fool's and I had no energy to be pulling a prank I was so sad. Like seriously sad ... Read More »
When opposition accompanies sharing the Gospel
Our church has adopted a local park as a place to show the love of Jesus by giving away free stuff, serving food, praying with people and sharing the Gospel. We call it "Community Cares" and we plan for months in advance and ask God to show us how to reach the people of our community with his love. Saturday we hosted an egg hunt, gave out donuts/muffins and shared the Gospel ... Read More »
Using the week of Easter as a platform to share the Gospel
Oh man, I can't believe I did a vlog. Please don't make fun of me. I didn't want to do it but I can't explain how compelled I was to share this message with you. Maybe you'll take the 5 minutes you don't have to listen to a creative way you can share with others this week the amazing Good News that is truly life changing. https://vimeo.com/123334519 ... Read More »
Choosing to un-believe the lie that it’s “too late”
Today I was reminded of God's sweet grace in my life. I had blown it big time in one of my relationships. Oh alright, I'll tell you. I mentor a little girl at a school in our community. We've been "lunch buddies" since last year and I see her once a week. Well, about mid November when sickness hit our family over and over again I found myself every Thursday either at a ... Read More »
I’m that ‘well she tries’ girl in the kitchen
It was a long-time-waiting warm Spring day outside yesterday. And those kinds of days make me do crazy things all in the name of warm weather. I dreamed up this visual in my head of our family rocking on the rocking chairs of our Southern front porch eating warm pound cake with strawberries and watching traffic drive by. As if any of us have time for that but it sure sounded ... Read More »
Dad’s, date your daughters before others do.
Dads, you will never know how much special time with your daughter means to her. All little girls desire to be cherished and loved by her earthly Daddy. And nothing says "I love you" more than special time set up for just you and her. A Daddy-daughter date. A Father reaches a daughter's heart in a unique way that a Mother can't and so that special time together is so ... Read More »
A new kind of Spring blooms you will just love!
This is my idea of the perfect set of blooms because you don't have to remember to water them and they stay yellow year round. Heck you can even snag a cup of water on a rainy day without having to go back inside. For real, how red neck can you get? Our son put these out for some air soft target shooting this week. I thought it was pretty clever. And tacky. They will probably ... Read More »