We set off from our base in southern Missouri, with a quick stop planned in St. Louis on our way north.
The day started off rough when I ripped the handle off the kitchen cabinet putting the slide...
“You don’t have to do everything.” This phrase blew across my heart like a refreshing wind a few months ago as I sat with the LORD. “I won’t love you more if you...
Today was my parent teacher day in my daughter’s preschool class. When it was storytime, we all gathered on the floor while the teacher prepared to read a book to her class. A sweet little...
My three year old ate the tip off her red pepper at lunch yesterday, and then spent the next 10 minutes methodically trying to pick every seed from the pepper stem with her little toddler fingers....
Sometimes life hurts. Sometimes people hurt you. Sometimes, even the people closest to you hurt you.
This can mean a lot of things to different people. Sometimes people physically hurt others, even...
Knowing who we are in and through and because of Christ is absolutely imperative to a Christian believer! Why? Because when we believe that Jesus is LORD, that He died on the cross and rose again,...
The sun was high, the air hot and humid.
It was our last trip out on the boat for the summer. The deck of the pontoon boat was filled with family, and he didn’t feel like going swimming. But...
I was feeling overwhelmed. Again.
I looked longingly at my Bible on the coffee table, but knew the clock said I didn’t have time to read it.
I’d been up since 5 a.m. to have a Skype...
The strategy of God is something that continues to surprise and delight me, and quite honestly, it blows my mind year after year. How I can have seen Him move like He has, and still be so...
I was recently talking with our videographer about marriage. He shared that when he was engaged to be married, rather than going to marriage counseling, he and his bride decided...