Yesterday was Thanksgiving. The blog posts started ‘hitting the presses’ on managing family dysfunction and the memes were hilariously spreading over social media on how to survive and combat the family dysfunction blues. I had a family member send out a group text with a list of ways to avoid family arguments on Thanksgiving. It […]
A blog post that I did for my church I knew what I wanted to write about, but, I didn’t know how I wanted to approach the topic. So, I decided to do a quick Google search to see what—if anything—other people were saying on the topic. It, genuinely, broke my heart to find scads […]
This is a post that I wrote for my church blog. Enjoy it here, too. A blog post about loving and understanding our unique gifts and submitting those qualities to the Lord so that his will shall be done through you in your own unique way. I have taken up jogging. I am not a […]
What did John MacArthur say about Beth Moore and What underlying message did we miss? Let’s take a deeper look at the Dr. John MacArthur and Beth Moore debacle Dr. John MacArthur attended, as the Guest of Honor, and spoke at the Truth Matters Conference in October 2019 at his church, Grace Community Church, as […]
A Look Into the Life of Lot I am caught between the title ‘The Lot Syndrome’ and ‘Parenting 101’. They are two totally different topics, but both can be found within the story of Lot. There is quite a lot that we can learn from Abraham’s nephew Lot. Lot can be found in the book […]
Halloween night in the Midwest was always a lawless free-for-all. Back in the late ‘90s, teenagers roamed the streets with no fear, armed with toilet paper, shaving cream, and whatever else we could get our hands on. And that year? My cousin Jackey and I decided to go big—we were going to TP the police […]
I did things backward most of my life. And honestly? I’m not sure anyone could have convinced me to do it differently. Not my parents, not my teachers, and not even future me if she time-traveled back to seventeen-year-old me, sat me down, and laid out my entire life like a roadmap. I would have […]
Once upon a time, I was a baby. And then, just like that—I wasn’t. I was born in the 1970s, the third child of my parents, sandwiched between an older sister and a younger brother. My earliest memories begin when I was three, a little whirlwind of curiosity and independence. That was the year my […]
Yesterday was Thanksgiving. The blog posts started ‘hitting the presses’ on managing family dysfunction and the memes were hilariously spreading over social media on how to survive and combat the family dysfunction blues. I had a family member send out a group text with a list of ways to avoid family arguments on Thanksgiving. It […]
STEPDADS GET A TROPHY, STEPMOMS GET THE GUILLOTINE–WTF, SOCIETY? Why is it that a stepdad gets a round of applause just for showing up to a school play, while a stepmom doing the same is accused of “trying too hard”? Why is one seen as a hero and the other as an intruder? And let’s […]
This is a post that I wrote for our church blog. We all find ourselves at intersections in life; but this is unlike one of those spiritual intersections. Read along as I go for a leisurely drive with my middle son to the intersection and get a snippet of what it can be like if […]
Yesterday was Thanksgiving. The blog posts started ‘hitting the presses’ on managing family dysfunction and the memes were hilariously spreading over social media on how to survive and combat the family dysfunction blues. I had a family member send out a group text with a list of ways to avoid family arguments on Thanksgiving. It […]
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