After sharing my testimony at a church one night a lady came up to me afterwards and asked, “So what’s it like?” A little confused I said, “What’s what like?” She leaned in and almost in a whisper said, “You know, what’s it like being married to a ‘MAN OF THE CLOTH’?” The first thought that came to my mind when I thought of “my man” and “cloth” was his underwear on the floor ... Read More »
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Wouldn’t Charge Him a Dime!
I’ll admit that I’ve always been a bit naive. When I was about 13 years old my Mother took me to a very nice hotel for dinner. We were waiting to meet my father so we sat in the large beautiful lobby of downtown Atlanta. A few minutes into our wait an older man came walking in with a much younger woman next to him. She was wearing a leather skirt, fish net hose and lots of ... Read More »
Ladies and Gentlemen
I was picking up, Mitchell, our second grader from school and was getting his homework folder out of his desk when a pink piece of paper caught my attention. I opened it and realized that it was Mitchell’s first “love note”. On a torn off piece of construction paper, in childlike print it said, “Will you be my boyfriend?” I tried hard not to join my great grandmother in heaven ... Read More »
In my world
I grew up going to the grocery store with my Mother and if there was a scantily clad woman on the front cover of a magazine she would politely and matter of factly turn the magazine over. Better to be exposed to the back side of a magazine than the back side of a half dressed Daisy Duke. This always embarrassed me and I swore I would never do it when I got older. I'm ... Read More »
First Impressions are off with a bang
I had a missed call on my cell phone so I returned the call and the man (one of our church leaders) said with a laugh, “I really liked that voice mail on your phone.” I said, “What voicemail?” He was quiet and then I said, “For real, I didn’t know I had voicemail in place yet.” Then I suddenly had this thought of pure horror as I recalled trying to record a new voicemail ... Read More »
The birds and the bees….and aguas
James Dobson always has my ear on parenting issues and so when I heard him talk about children and sex education I wanted to listen carefully. Dobson suggests that a parent have the sex talk with their child as they begin Kindergarten. He explains it much better than I can but the main idea is that it’s better for a child to have an initial understanding of sex explained ... Read More »
A 50’s Bride
My Mom said something last week that has stuck with me. She said, “Today’s woman doesn’t seem to enjoy and love being at home like years ago. Instead she appears to be a fast paced, busy, stressed woman on the go.” Gulp! She just described this daughter of hers! But the thing is this: I do love to be at home but I admit that I struggle with managing the busy-ness of life at ... Read More »
My Take on my Tattoo
Getting a tattoo has opened up a lot of conversations and dialogue in the past week. People have emailed, texted and called me wanting to talk about it and it’s been sort of neat to be able to talk about God in this way and to hear other people’s stories too…..to share parts of my faith in random, choppy ways. As time goes on my prayer is that God will use this mark to engage ... Read More »