It has been a long time since I have been here in this space. What better time to begin again than with a recap of my Spring. These past few months have been a blur of activity and transitions, a wedding, and keeping up with my students at school. My emotions have run the gauntlet from contentment, to anxiousness, to joy to sadness. […]
I almost feel guilty saying this but I would rather read on my kindle than a physical book. Being an avid reader, I feel like I should be a purist and love reading from actual paper books, but I don’t. My husband bought me my first kindle when we moved overseas over ten years ago. I wasn’t too excited about it […]
Yesterday my husband and I listened online as our home pastor talked about his future transition into retirement and the new vision God has for him. In October, he will pass the baton of Senior paster to an associate pastor that he has worked with and mentored for over 10 years. They are both ready for this new season, but […]
When I was trying to come up with a word to describe 2019 (which I never did), all I could think of was “transition”. We are transitioning people on and off our team in the next month. Our family is transitioning into a new season as our daughter weds in May. Our son started college in the fall. Not to forget, I transitioned two […]
It is so easy to look at life and see what is driving us crazy or what needs to be fixed. Today I am taking a step back and looking at what is keeping me sane right now. This is my third year in joining Anne at Modern Ms. Darcy as she encourages others to share what is keeping them sane as the cold […]
Some journeys take you exactly where you expect to go, but the best ones take you where you need to go. Last year, I picked “connection” as my word for 2018. I knew I wanted to be more connected to God, my family, and my friends. What I didn’t know is how much being connected to God was the key […]
A month ago, I volunteered to be a reviewer for Bitter Winter, the 5th book in a Christian fantasy series called Ilyon Chronicles by Jaye L. Knight. The trouble was that I hadn’t ever read anything by Jaye L. Knight before which also meant that I had never read the first four books. My husband and I started on the […]
Has it ever seemed like a rug was just ripped out from under you, and you are flat on your back looking up? Maybe a relationship ended or someone you loved dearly died. Or maybe you lost your job or received a health diagnosis that will change how you live. Having the rug ripped out from under you really messes […]
It has been a long time since I have dug deep verse by verse into a book of the Bible. The past few years my studies have been more looking at the big picture of the Bible or going through a book a chapter at a time. This fall I went through an online study of Ephesians with Stacey Thacker at Girlfriend’s […]
(photo credit: My honey) One of my favorite things each week is getting all comfy in my chair with my computer, notebook, and a glass of ice coffee. For a few minutes which sometimes grows into an hour, I catch up on reading different blogs that I enjoy. The topics range from recipes to Christian discipleship to book reviews. One thing I […]