My week had been messed with in all kinds of crazy ways and as I sat in my red chair praying to God for a stranger I'd just met I found myself praying for her provision. That he would give her exactly what she needed that day and the days to come. If you were to turn the pages of my prayer journal back you'd read where I was crying out to God to provide our own specific needs. ... Read More »
Fighting Culture
Making room for Friendship
A recent conversation has been stuck in my head and has made me evaluate some things. A woman was saying positive things about another person to me but she said something sandwiched in between and in passing that struck me. She said, "I'm so impressed with this, that and the other.....but she doesn't have time for a friend." She didn't mean it in a negative way. Just matter of ... Read More »
Pushing through the Awkward in Friendship
Our small group met at a Pizza place for discussion over the book Messy Beautiful Friendship last night. Ya'll we do book clubs all wrong. We meet every few weeks and discuss about 64 chapters at a time. It's ridiculous but somehow it works for us and we like it. Last night we discussed hospitality. Christine Hoover talks about "back door" friends. You know - the kind that ... Read More »
A great view on SmartPhones and Kids by Craig Gross
(I'm on a mass email list from Craig Gross and his ministry and received this email today. I copied and pasted since there is no blog post to the same information. All Craig's social media contact information is in this post so you can decide to follow him if you want. He's been helpful in guiding our family in some of our decisions and I think you might ... Read More »
How we’re handling The Shack and Beauty & The Beast as a family.
Hi friends - this post is to share where we're coming from on two movies Christians are talking about right now. We might land in different places on one or both of the topics and it's okay to do that. It's the beauty of respect within community. I read the Shack when it first came out but have not seen the movie. I've watched a few interviews with the author to better ... Read More »
Seductive Senior Pictures
I've started this post a million times not wanting to tread on sensitive ground yet want to talk about something that has been concerning to me. I'll just get it out there. I'm concerned about all the seductive senior pictures I'm seeing in facebook land. Girlzzzzzz.......some of you are pulling off sexy really well but what you're doing is dangerous. You're setting yourself ... Read More »
Writing Letters
Oh don't get me wrong - I love sending and receiving an encouraging text, sweet phone call and real live conversations. They are convenient and a wonderful part of daily life. But I'm old school enough to still be sad that the hand written letter continues to fade ever so fast. That and because I love any excuse to go to Barnes & Noble I bought the kids note cards and had ... Read More »
Why your child is not my friend
It started four years ago - I'd get Facebook friend requests either from young girls I was mentoring or friends of our son. Not because I'm a cool Mom but maybe because their parents said something like, "Fine, Mr. Fourth Grader, you can have a Facebook account but you have to be friends with the Preacher's Wife." They might not even know my name but you know being friends with ... Read More »