Wishing you the happiest New Year’s Day! May you feel peace in knowing that you are a new creation in Christ, that He will renew your heart and offer fresh mercies every day. May you resist the...
This time of year you hear the familiar chatter around New Year’s Resolutions, and there seems to be a growing conversation around your “word,” your one word for the year. What can one wor...
This is for the weary woman that is secretly looking forward to Christmas being over. Not because you don’t love Jesus, but because it’s all become too much, overwhelming, and sometimes more ...
At the beginning of last December, I embarked on something doomed to fail — a diet. October birthday cakes, Halloween candy, and Thanksgiving pies had caught up with me, and I didn’t want to ...
Just this week I really started to get spring fever. Anyone else? The house feels so dark and the days are still so short! A mid-winter slump can be hard to get out of if you don’t live in a ...
We wore bathrobes stitched by my mother’s own hand, terry cloth rough against our skin in navy blue and dark green. A white belt around the middle. We put towels on our heads, makeshift coverin...
My heart began to race. Fire radiated from my chest, down my arms, and up my neck. Sweat beads rolled down my temples. “No, no. Please, God, no,” I cried. I recognized immediately what was ha...
I’ll be the first to tell you, I am not the best at expressing gratitude. In November 2013, I was working as a live-in nanny for my cousin, Kim. She’s crafty beyond belief and had created a �...
In the world of marketing and public relations (a world in which I live in for more than 40 hours a week), vanilla is a dirty word that finds itself attached to any lackluster effort. Vanilla eve...
Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His love endures forever . . . Let them give thanks to the Lord for His unfailing love and His wonderful deeds for mankind, for He satisfies the thirsty a...
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There is this pumpkin still sitting on our porch and a boy who thinks we can carve it up, pull out some superhero garb and have a re-do of that holiday with all the candy. He’s drawn the face o...
Confession: Gratitude doesn’t come naturally to me. I can find the black-winged fly in the pristine white paint. I can sound like an old church organ, creaks and sighs and whines. I can make me...
The table is set. A lace cloth has been spread underneath our finest china. Every dish we could imagine is put before us. A giant turkey has just been carved and the aroma of baking pies teases o...
When it comes to the holidays, I can be a bit of a rebel. Most of us complain about Christmas decorations going up in stores in September. We want to savor autumn and give each of our holidays a ...
A heavenly aroma wafted from the oven as my dear husband pulled the turkey out to the hushed and reverent ooh’s and aah’s of delight from our guests. The table was adorned with every manner o...