There’s No Place Like Home, But There’s Also Nothing Like Epic Adventures
This post was inspired as I was having a phone conversation with a friend yesterday by the chicken pen at my children’s home in Austin. Our conversation was interrupted when I saw two little renegade chickens out of the pen again. Those who follow me will remember the last time I was here in Austin.…
Help Me! I’m an Ice Cream-oholic!
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream! My addiction to ice cream started with the yummy homemade peach ice cream my dad made in those old crank ice cream makers. Then, my dad enabled more love when after church each Sunday night, he’d take me to the nearby convenience store and buy…
Of Course, We Have Great Love for Our Children – We’re Just Like Our Father
I was thrilled when I recently saw the Facebook post of a precious young woman that I and many others had been praying for. You see….her greatest desire and prayer was to be able to conceive a baby. It took years, but now she holds that precious baby girl in her arms and you can…
What is Your Foundation Built Upon?
Is Your Home Built on Firm Foundation? I heard a riveting sermon yesterday about foundations – of buildings, homes, AND people. When prevailing winds and storms come (and they will), what is it that keeps structures firmly standing? What is it that gives the strength, will, and determination to outlast the storms of life? Remember…
Keep Planting Those Seeds
Seed…..Time….Harvest – that’s the process. We plant our seeds of faith, our seeds of caring and loving and giving and, sometimes, we think it’s taking way too long between planting the seed and gathering the harvest. We surmise that it must have been unfruitful seed. Take an apple, for example. It is hard to believe,…
I Found a Special on Storm Shelters!
Oh. My. Goodness. The verbal wrangling and bickering in politics are enough to want to find a storm shelter and stay there until Jesus comes or at least until the storm passes over. Recently, I’ve heard commentators and read articles that declared “America is Facing Another Civil War”. And, others warn “We’re Facing World War…
Opportunity to Become God’s Fixer Upper!
If you’ve ever watched (and, in my case, was addicted to) HGTV’s “Fixer Upper” (after five seasons, now only in re-runs), you saw a fun-loving and talented couple, Chip and Joanna Gaines, transform old, in need of repair homes into a beautiful work of art. You will also probably know about their Magnolia Market, their…
Safeguard Your Identity
When I heard Lauren Daigle’s new song yesterday morning as I was taking my granddaughter to work, I knew it was my inspiration for today’s post. The song’s words describe how we see and think about ourselves and, oftentimes — it’s not a pretty sight. It’s also how we think others define us. We determine…
Viva la Difference
You might think “How did THEY ever get together?” I know that’s the way it was for my husband and I. He had a serious, intuitive, methodical, perfectionist, deep-thinker personality. I, on the far end of the spectrum (as far as the East is from the West), was/am a lighthearted, sanguine, fun-loving, upbeat, go-with-the-flow personality.…
What We Need When We Are a Hot Mess
I was amused when one of my friends said “I’m a hot mess” – which meant not only is she dealing with the symptoms of “the change of life”, but she was also loaded up with so much to do and feeling so inadequate at the things she was doing. Speaking of a “hot mess”,…