What Really Matters This Week

Y'all, it's only Monday and I'm already exhausted. We've been basically going non-stop this summer.  Between trips and camps and church activities and getting my parents moved to Alabama, I am t.i.r.e.d. Our church is having Vacation Bible School this week so we'll be busy with that every night. And my girl has some oral surgery scheduled for this week also. It would be easy to make a big list of things to do this week.  After all, school is starting in just a few weeks and that means we ... [Read More]

How Will You Respond to Summer Chaos?

Four weeks from yesterday my daughter's sophomore year in high school will begin. Seriously, y'all? I'm beside myself wondering where the time has gone. For example ... This summer has flown by and in the few weeks we have left the chaos won't slow down.  It seems like the older my girl gets, the fewer days we have for just doing nothing. When I look at the calendar marked up with days away from home and the days we are home with their doctor appointments and church activities, I have a ... [Read More]

3 Reasons I Am No Longer Apologizing for My Busy Schedule

Monday I came out ... I admitted I'm busy and acknowledged that many of you probably are busy also. I shared this simple prayer: Even in my busy-ness may my heart be focused on Kingdom business. Here's the thing, I've spent a lot of time hiding my crazy schedule or making light of it. But this is where I am ... this is the place God has me right now. And it is okay. I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with with. He has made everything beautiful in ... [Read More]

Book Review: Breaking Up with Perfect by Amy Carroll

Last summer I met this incredible girl with a smile that fills up a room. From our first phone conversation until we met face-to-face in the hallway of a hotel conference center in Charlotte, North Carolina, I knew this was a woman who loved Jesus. As she reached out to hug me, she said, with the perfect Southern drawl, "I fell like we are already friends." And we were. Amy Carroll is the real deal, y'all. Genuine, funny, and passionate about encouraging women.  She the girl who looks yoi n ... [Read More]

Busy Women Welcome Here!

My heart is drawn to a group of women who are often left feeling guilty or inadequate or even hurt by so much of the rhetoric in blogs and books these days. Women like me: the busy women! Consider this my welcome sign: Busy women welcome here! I can relate because, I confess, I'm busy. My calendar is full and my days never have enough time to do all the things I want and even need to do. My daughter is in high school and my husband is on staff at a great church. We live near both our families ... [Read More]

What if … We Learn to Live Well

Permission to Live Well My heart is simply to invite others into the freedom, peace, and grace we find in the life to full Jesus offers us.  So often we get distracted by the thief who is constantly working to steal, kill, and destroy all the good and perfect gifts God offers to His children. This series has been my invitation to you to consider there is an option.  You don't have to live in the frenzy and chaos and busy our culture promotes. You can choose something different, something other ... [Read More]