{This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase through them, I will receive a small commission at no additional cost to you.} Oh my word, y'all! This week has been crazy busy for us ... and the weekend looks even more chaotic. {Can someone please tell me how to be two places at once???} My preference is to share some of the goodness I've found through the week on my Facebook page over the weekend. But I'm afraid that might not come to fruition. So I gathered them up here for you in one ... [Read More]
Jesus Calling: One of my Favorite Devotionals
{This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase through them, I will receive a small commission at no additional cost to you.} I offer rest for your soul, as well as refreshment for your mind and body. {Jesus Calling, August 19} I'm not really sure when or where I received my first copy of Jesus Calling, I just know once I opened the pages I was captivated. For years I've been personalizing Scripture in my prayers ... but hearing the words of Scripture personalized as a message to me ... [Read More]
A Monday Morning Choice
It's 8:06 a.m. as I type this. I have a major writing deadline at noon today. My house is a wreck. The laundry is out of control. My back is aching. The storm last night left a HUGE mess in my backyard. And my quiet time this morning was less encouraging and more convicting. I hate it when Monday barges in like she's the boss of me. Every part of my flesh wants to whine and put on Facebook how overwhelmed I am, how badly my week is starting, how tired I feel ... But there's this: . . . ... [Read More]
Why I Read Fiction
If I'm totally honest, I sort of decided when I was in college that fiction was the lesser form of writing. I can't pinpoint the moment when I stopped reading stories ... but somewhere along the way I did. Fiction was reserved for vacations ... I called reading a novel my guilty pleasure. And did penance for the waste of time by reading more and more "real" books. Somehow I'd begun to believe only nonfiction had real value in my life. I was wrong. Very, very wrong. A couple of years ago I ... [Read More]
The Wonder of Growing Up
That's my girl ... on her first day of high school. She was equal parts excited and terrified as I dropped her off last Thursday. We managed, for the first time ever!, to be ready early on the first day of school ... and so we have actual first day of school pictures achieved without any screaming or crying or rushing. A gift, y'all. Then, because clearly the Lord has opened the floodgates of blessing for my girl, we arrived at the school right behind her two very best friends and all three ... [Read More]
A Prayer for the First Day of School
It's the first day of school, Lord. It's a big day for all of us. Students full of questions and doubts and excitement. Teachers full of ideas and plans and dreams. Mommas full of all the emotions. Protect our babies, Lord. Whether it's the first day of kindergarten or middle school, or college, those students are our children. And we want today to be full of good things. Let them make friends and reach out to those who are lonely. Give them attentive minds and caring hearts. Use our babies, ... [Read More]
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