Bucket Lists
What’s on your bucket list? Sky-diving? International travel? Learning a foreign language? It seems we all have at least one more thing we want to do before our time on earth is over. Some of us purposefully have a long list, somehow hoping it’ll keep us here a bit longer. We try to push death [...]
Continue reading...22. August 2010
Courageous and Without Fear
Is it possible to spread the gospel message without fear? For the majority of my life I would have answered that with a big fat NO. I approached spreading the gospel, well not even spreading, just uttering a peep that I was a Christian, with fear and trembling. Wearing the occasional cross necklace and [...]
Continue reading...15. August 2010
And This is My Prayer …
The longer I’m a mother and the older my children become, the more I realize how little control I actually have. When they were toddlers, I made nearly every decision for them, including the rooms they played in, the toys they played with, the food they ate for dinner, and what time they went to [...]
Continue reading...8. August 2010
The Power of a Chain
Jail time. That was Lindsay Lohan’s sentence for a probation violation. Some deemed the punishment too harsh, while others felt she got off easy. Speaking of getting off easy, what about O.J.? Public sentiment definitely sided against the verdict. And then there are those who pay the time for something they didn’t do while others [...]
Continue reading...1. August 2010
The Dance and the Pole
Do you ever struggle with feeling inadequate? I will admit that I do from time to time, and it seems the inadequate feelings always attack my parenting. I watch other moms drive their kids here and there and wonder if I have my kids involved in enough extra curricular activities. I see [...]
Continue reading...26. July 2010
The First Step Toward Leading
The word “elder” doesn’t always stir up a case of “warm fuzzies.” In fact, it often causes something more along the lines of “nausea.” To begin, I grew up an elder’s daughter, meaning my dad sat on the board of elders–and often chaired it–for the majority of my childhood. This made ours a well-known [...]
Continue reading...19. July 2010
Level Ground
I used to be a missionary. I lived on foreign soil, spoke a foreign land, and even became infected by a foreign parasite. If I happen to mention my previous occupation, people oftentimes gulp, take a step backwards and look at me as if my face will begin glowing like Moses’. They nervously fumble, looking [...]
Continue reading...11. July 2010
Free “Apps”
I have the privilege—if you want to call it that—of being married to a “techy.” Yes, my husband loves his tech toys. After months of pestering me about how I needed my own iPhone, he handed me his “less-new” phone when he upgraded to a newer model. I fought it tooth and [...]
Continue reading...17. March 2009
Mothering like the Father
If you’re a mom, how many times have you wished you had some sort of directions for raising your kids? Well, now there is a book that provides those directions, or more aptly, points to and highlights the book where these answers can be found. Mothering like the Father: Following God’s Example in Parenting Young [...]
Continue reading...31. March 2008
The Beast’s Undoing
In front of me stands something incredibly large. Invincible, in fact. It appears to be a tank, shroud entirely in heavy armor–a tank with eyes. He stands more than nine feet tall. His armor weighs 125 pounds, more than my entire body weight, which doesn’t even account for the fifteen pounds just for the tip [...]
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29. August 2010
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