1) My Favorite New ‘Thing’ for 2015 – Blogging!
The most appropriate name for my year would be: “The Year of the Newbie”. Every venture I embarked on – grandma’ing, blogging, Facebooking, Tweeting – I was new at.
If a visual learning curve were drawn for my year, it would be a vertical line – straight skyward. I have loved the challenge, the learning, the connecting, the writing, the whole kit-and-kaaboodle of it. I have grown… [Read more…]
1) Three Great Thoughts from Three Great Books
I don’t like the middles. Can you relate?
I love the endings (specifically, happy ones), and I enjoy the beginnings (so much to look forward to, so much hope) – but, life’s middles are not my favorite place. [Read more…]
‘Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired?’ This was a popular ad campaign on a local Christian radio station I listened to in the 90’s. I got so sick and tired of the ‘sick and tired’ campaign that I stopped listening to that radio station.
Does it bother you, like it does me, that Christian’s lives don’t look different from others? It seems like we should have ‘more’ life…..less of the ‘sick and tired’ stuff!
“I have come that they might have life and have it more abundantly.”
John 10:10 [Read more…]
I remember a Sunday morning at church with my family several years ago when I was “caught” arguing with my daughter.
The worst part wasn’t the argument, but the person who saw it.
My harsh words finished, I looked up and my eyes met the eyes of one of the women I admire most at church, a national speaker at Christian conferences on family issues. She looked away quickly, embarrassed, by the scene she had just witnessed in my family. I can tell you, I was even more humiliated, wishing I had not fought with my daughter, and, wishing that she had not witnessed it.
I was probably more sick about being witnessed in this family “scene” than the argument itself. [Read more…]
