This morning, I completed Priscilla Shirer’s Bible study He Speaks to Me: Preparing to Hear from God. I chose the study because I so desperately want to hear the voice of God in my life. What I received through this six-week study was God’s words reaching into my heart through Priscilla’s words. In teaching the necessary elements of my submission …
Almost seven years ago, I quit my “day job” as a middle school teacher to write full time. I’m well aware that it’s a blessing to be able to devote entire days to my writing endeavors when so many of my contemporaries must snatch an hour here or there between work, kids and life. Or as Monk would say, “It’s …
In my last post I Resolve to…, I stated that our relationship with Christ should be a daily resolution—“Resolve to make Christ the center of your life and the rest will take care of itself.” The next day, I opened up week five of Priscilla Shirer’s Bible study, He Speaks to Me and was convicted in yet another area that …
I never took to the idea of New Year’s resolutions. Why wait until January 1st to put into practice those things you deem important? If I feel the need to exercise more or get organized, I just do it. Call me crazy (or anal retentive—whichever you feel is appropriate,) but it just makes sense. However, as the first of the …
Last weekend, Chris and I went to see the movie Saving Mr. Banks. It was a toss-up between that and The Book Thief, but the Disney movie won out because we were in the mood to see a feel-good film and expected the story behind Mary Poppins to deliver. Besides, I recently finished the novel, The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult …
There’s been some backlash in the face of recent comments made by Phil Robertson, Duck Dynasty Dad in a GQ article, regarding homosexuality. Although I was outraged that he was suspended for speaking Biblical truth, after further research, I have to say he didn’t do Christians any favors. Yes, he spoke Biblical truth, but he sprinkled it with enough crudeness …
This past weekend, we went on our annual jaunt to San Francisco with my husband’s family. It’s a combination celebration—Chris’s birthday and Christmas. We used to make the trek in one day. We’d meet in Larkspur, ferry over to the city, have lunch at Lefty O’Doul’s, check out Union Square and head back home. About six hours of driving for …
I’m taking a snow day–or, more accurately, a snow week! Due to the busyness of the season and the stunning beauty of how God’s purified my surroundings, I’m taking the week off. I’ll be back next Tuesday, refreshed and a little saddened that the snow will have turned from winter white to winter-worn!
My husband, Chris, turns 61 on Monday. He doesn’t look like a man in his 60’s, nor does he act like it. A lifestyle of healthy living has served him well. But it’s more than lifestyle that’s given him his youthful look—it’s attitude. Positive thinking, an optimistic outlook and a generous spirit seems to draw people to him. I know …
I always thought I’d go to heaven when I die. Maybe it was because I was raised going to church every Sunday, and even if I didn’t really understand how it was Jesus died for my sins, at least I knew who He was. I didn’t go around breaking the Ten Commandments and I tried to be a good person. …
