Christmas is the season of lists. I love lists. They keep me on track and provide such a sense of accomplishment when you check things off as they are done. Check. Check. Check. So satisfying! In December, there are even more lists than usual. There’s the gift list, the Christmas card list, the baking list, […]
(This turned into an early Christmas post. Yet, it feels timely to me, possibly because of all the Christmas commercials and store decorations. Or maybe it’s because it’s been snowing all afternoon! In any case, I just had to say…) I’m a mess lately. I almost cry at commercials. I say, “No, no!” to the […]
Recently I was in a new situation with new people who had never met me before. Our points of view were different, our frames of reference were different; our word-views were different. And yet, I was still surprised when we clashed our first week together! That’s Not What I Meant I thought we were working […]
I have to tell you that October is one of my favorite months of the year. It’s a beautiful fall transition month, it’s Scott’s birthday month and it’s my testimony month–the month I personally celebrate the fact that I’m still here…because in October of my senior year of high school, I wasn’t sure I wanted […]
Have you heard the expression, “When it rains, it pours,”? Sometimes life does seem like that. In just the past three weeks, we’ve had a death in the family, a girlfriend had a mastectomy for breast cancer, our youth pastor broke his back and had surgery; and another pastor friend was in the hospital with […]
Creating Our World I think one of the most amazing principles at work in our world is the creative power of our words. We can literally create a great deal of our world, of our lives, by what we say. Sound like hocus-pocus? Not all all. (This is a Biblical blog. No hocus-pocus here.) We […]
Great Plans I had great plans for my blog this month—oops, I guess I mean last month. That’s how fast time has been flying by. I should say…I had great plans for this blog in August! I even wrote up a Blog Calendar with writing topics for each day I would post. I already have […]
To Fly or Not to Fly Growing up, I always loved airports. I just loved the atmosphere—all the people coming and going, the planes landing and taking off, the very air vibrating with the wonderful world of “travel.” I was sure I would LOVE to fly. The first time I got on a plane (that […]
Glacier Bible Camp I had never heard of Family Camp until I moved to Montana. Turns out, it’s a wonderful week-long conference on a campground in Hungry Horse, MT. (Yes, the town is called Hungry Horse, named for a couple of horses that got lost in the winter of 1900 and were later found, skinny […]
You Prayed for What? I did the craziest thing at the end of Sunday school yesterday. I prayed at the conclusion of the lesson and I heard myself say, “Lord, help us to grow in spiritual warfare and to learn to use the tools You’ve given us.” Part of my brain was already sending up […]