Blog – Page 116

I Like to Be Right.

I like to be right. Let me restate that, I need to be right. It's one of those ongoing flesh-versus-spirit battles in my life. I want people to see my point of view and agree with me. Seriously, I went to college on a debate scholarship—I don't just want you to listen to me, I want to persuade you to my point of view. Always. No where is this more evident than in my relationship with my child. Recently in the mall, we walked past Victoria's Secret. The girl casually mentioned she'd ... [Read More]

9:02 pm on April 2, 2013 {the beautiful ordinary}

Last week my girl and I went to Missouri to spend Spring Break with my parents. We had a great time and I thoroughly enjoyed being unplugged for a few days. We came home Friday and spent Saturday at an Easter egg hunt with cousins. Sunday was a beautiful day of worship. Monday I went to Birmingham to speak at the STRENGTH Conference. Such fun to share with small business owners how they can use social media more efficiently and more effectively. Today I had lunch with Kristi and Mitzi, ... [Read More]

But in Humility

Lent undid me this year. It pressed in on my heart in ways I hadn't expected. Revealed layers of hurt and anger I thought had long since been healed and left behind. All my reading and study over the past six weeks have led me to a strange, uncertain place. The knots of stubbornness and pride are tight ... and I find myself resisting the untying process I know is necessary. The one word that keeps hanging in the air around me is humility. As I read familiar verses from ... [Read More]

Lead Your Family Like Jesus

I live a very real, very ordinary life. There is always laundry to wash and meals to cook. Twenty-four hours never seems like quite enough. And some days it feels like all I'm doing is spinning my wheels. Everything I wash will have to be rewashed. Every meal I cook will be eaten and another one will be needed within a few hours. Dishes fill the sink as fast as I can get them washed and put into cabinets. Beds need making, bathrooms need cleaning ... and before I know it, the ... [Read More]

When God Shows Out
{a Samaritan’s Purse update}

I love being a Samaritan's Purse blogger. What they do is amazing ... through Operation Christmas Child, this ministry impacts the lives of countless children around the world. But Samaritan's Purse does way more than hand out shoeboxes. The Children's Heart Project provides children with life-saving heart surgeries. Through construction projects and disaster relief, staff and volunteers from Samaritan's Purse change lives in the United States and around the world. World Medical Missions ... [Read More]

JOY on the Ride of Life! {a God-sized dreams post}

With the abandon rarely found as we get older, my daughter and her friend raced to the kiddie coaster at a local park. They jumped on board and with arms raised high the laughed and screamed as the ride twisted and turned. I lost count of how many times the went around the tracks as the spring sun shone through the green trees. I took three hundred pictures of these two girls, caught between childhood and adolescence. Eyes sparkling, faces beaming, they rode the coaster, the carousel, and ... [Read More]

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