Having just spent the last few days processing through the difficult months in Liberia, as the Samaritan’s Purse missionaries battled Ebola (along with the DART members deployed to help – the Disaster Assistance Response Team), this is my morning…
Tomorrow will undoubtedly be the last first day of school for this year. All week I’ve mulled over the “letting them leave” perspective (you must read last week’s blog if you haven’t). It put me in a reflective funk, as…
It’s that time of year when first-day-of-school pictures pop up all over Facebook, and lots of mom’s and dad’s take their babies away to college, and leave them there. Every first day of school is just a milestone toward…
Perspectacles. I found that word this week, and I wished I’d been creative enough to have made it up for myself. Instead, another mother coined it, wrote it in her blog (a great read, by the way – you…
Unfinished. That seems to be the word of the week. I can hardly keep up with myself. As I sit here this morning, I’m staring at a To Do List, not of things new, but of things unfinished. Unfinished…
If you didn’t read last week’s blog, could you just zip back and do that now? While I applied it to my struggle with the “p” word (procrastination), the message really is about being pro-choice. No, not concerning abortion,…
Lately, I find myself procrastinating………..A LoT! It’s like I’ve picked up a procrastination virus and it’s infected my soul. I could pray for a cure. I could ask God to give me a motivation-shot. However, like most viruses that…
Retreats. Any kind. I relish them. I always know that when there’s intentionality, God will show up. I was reminded of that in mid-May and, again, this past week. There is a little island in the middle of Lake…
While I was in Africa last October, I started reading this book of “ancient prayers,” which belonged to a friend and had been passed down from generation to generation. The original copy was written in 1897. I fell in…
I’m so thankful for this country! I may not always agree with the direction I see our government headed, but I am so appreciative of the freedoms I enjoy. This past weekend, as it was for all Americans, was…