A Womans Guide to Meeting God
Dear Taylor, Kylie and Ashton, I always knew I wanted you. Even before your dad and I met, I knew. And then ….one day there was you. All three of you. I remember the feeling of euphoria the first time I held you. How I watched you sleep peacefully in your tiny bassinet. How your […]
Did I tell you my laptop was stolen? And my new car got recalled? And my cell phone crashed? All in the same week. Word to the wise: don’t come near me for the time being. There. You’ve been warned. Truthfully, I handled the laptop thing pretty well. The car recall sent me right up […]
The questions on the table were these: “What happens in the heart of a woman when she compares herself to others? How can I stop comparing?” My friend and fellow writer, Denise Hughes, hosted a conference on Saturday called “The Well”. This heartfelt question was posed to those of us on the leadership panel […]
What if the answer to one question could determine your contentment in life? It can and it does. Here it is: Do you think about what you think about? Most people allow thoughts to enter and exit their brains without paying much attention to the flow. What we do notice, though, is our emotions—especially our […]
She moved on Friday. All her worldly belongings arrived two days prior so JP, Kylie and I could get her possessions unpacked and ready for her arrival. We hung her clothes, put away kitchen necessities and waded through old family pictures. “This stuff smells like Grandma” Kylie laughed. JP’s mom left all things familiar—her home, […]
It was a normal Wednesday afternoon. No fan fare. No lights, cameras or drama. I sat at the corner table, the one on the restaurant patio near the parking lot, making it easy to see her as she hopped out of her white SUV, her two elementary age boys close behind. Their conversation was clearly […]
What do you do when the world is in chaos? News of terrorist attacks, violence and political bad-mouthing fill the air waves 24/7. Add our own personal chaos: job loss, kid issues, relationship drama and health crises, it’s enough to make a sane person crazy. Gosh, I remember the days when getting the kids […]
When the customer service gal on the other end of the line started giving me attitude I could hardly believe it. After all, we’d made the proper claim for our dishwasher. We even allowed the service repairman to take three days to complete the job (although his extended periods on the phone with his boss […]
She was a shy teenager, a little awkward as she faced the crowd. That is until you looked at her face. Her face positively glowed. She bravely stood before hundreds of her peers and told about how, knees knocking, she shared the love of Jesus with a friend. How her words of God’s love came […]
It’s the four letter word no one wants to acknowledge but everyone experiences : F-A-I-L. Does anything make a person feel worse than failure? I doubt it. Whether it’s failure in parenting (I promised myself I wouldn’t handle things that way); Failure at work (How could I have possibly messed up that opportunity?); Failure in […]