Five Minute Friday::dear

I have observed from the sidelines as some of my friends have written wild and free on Fridays.  The challenge is five minutes, no real editing off a prompt given by Kate.  The community is real and so is the practice of letting words flow in worship.  The prompt this...

Good Friday Reflection

What does the cross mean to me? I’m the daughter of two successful type “A’s”. To say that I despise failure would be putting it mildly.   So after digging myself into a pit of sin and knowing full well how desperately I needed forgiveness and a Savior, I gave my...

No small service

I’ve never really been able to stomach needles.Perhaps the aversion developed after my abdominal surgery when I was four.  I distinctly remember having band-aids on every one of my fingers and begging them to leave. me. alone. Maybe it was the 14 years...

The one where I tell you I didn’t go.

The last four days have been such a surreal blur. From the first few coughs, to fever and headache.  Wednesday I went into the doctor and did the nose test.  I had Influenza A, and as long as my fever went away I wasn’t coughing, took my Tamiflu, it should have...

Traveling Mercies

The time has arrived, praying friends.  I leave on Friday with our team for all that God has in store.  Haiti or bust, I say!  I’m including a rough schedule of our time and would ask that you pray daily if you feel so led.  Would you pray that I would proclaim...

The Power of A Whisper

I think it must have been in the final chapter of one of those parenting books I read when Brendan was little.  You know back in the day when I had one kid and was obsessed about every little detail of his life.  I’d read “Bringing up Boys” by the...

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