“NO Payment until 2013!”

Cars. Furniture. Jewelry. Appliances. Basically, anything you want. Buy now, pay later.   Good deal or bad idea? As we {finally!} get back into Richard Foster’s ten controlling principles of simplicity, we are at number seven: Look with healthy skepticism at all “buy now, pay later” schemes.” (93) I’m not going […]

She’s Doing Great!

Thank you so much for all your prayers yesterday and the past weeks.  Greer’s surgery went very well and she is already off the vent this morning!! Please keep praying … I’m posting her mom’s Facebook note from last night below. So…the baby girl is out of surgery and all […]

Practical Suicide

Got your attention? I’m reading this amazing book … The Rest of God: Restoring Your Soul by Restoring Sabbath by Mark Buchanon. Do you ever have a book you KNOW you are supposed to be reading … RIGHT NOW?   This is that book for me. Scott bought Buchanon’s book for […]

The Bigness of the Small

Do not disdain the small.  The whole of the life – even the hard – is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole. ~ Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts The minute parts … how often are we, am I, guilty of […]

Where are your roots?

The roots of our hearts have grown down into things, and we dare not pull up one rootlet lest we die.  Things have become necessary to us, a development never originally intended.  God’s gifts now take the place of God, and the whole course of nature is upset by the […]

Open My Eyes

Today, I am happy to introduce you to a new friend, Melanie.   Melanie writes at  Only a Breath and speaks such encouragement and blessing into the lives of others.   Her words to you today have blessed me already and I know that you will find inspiration and hope in what […]