So back in good ole college days I was in a prayer group every year with different students. Every year we'd introduce ourselves and tell one thing we would like the group to pray about. Every year I'd wig my classmates out by saying something to this degree: Hi my name is Melody. When I was young I broke my leg. We were poor and had money for the surgery or the metal rod they ... Read More »
Randy
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 »
When you don’t feel all Proverbs 31’ish
For these reasons and more I have never written my name in the margin of Proverbs 31: 1) I caught Sunday lunch on fire this past Sunday. My husband blew it out. 2) I added these to a pork roast recipe because I thought they were the same thing as dried onions. But they're not. Fried and Dried are not the same thing. 3) My husband has worn underwear socks inside out ... Read More »
My “word” could be dangerous if I’m not careful
Ya know, I really thought my "word for the year" was going to have to be "Daggum" for a while because I could not come up with just one word. I'm noticing I'm not the only one who is having a hard time narrowing it down to just one word and I find a little comfort in that. But after sitting down and praying and looking over the last few sermons that our amazingly smokin' hot ... Read More »
Youth helping lead worship – I love it
We had a most special Christmas service at church Sunday. Randy always purposefully crafts a quiet and somber atmosphere with low lights, asking people to quietly enter the auditorium and communicating that the way Jesus came into this world was not with bombast and fare. Rather it was most likely quiet and simple. And so we would this morning read through the Christmas story ... Read More »
Community Outreach instead of Cyclical Church Events
For the first time ever our church took Trunk R Treat to a slightly sketchy neighborhood park. We had no idea what to expect but we prayed and planned and asked God to provide us with what He knew we needed for the night. Our church family worked hard and long to create a lit up obstacle course on the playground, set up decorated tables of candy and created a "dark room" where ... Read More »