Back to the Grind

I am SO thanking God for the upcoming three-day Labor Day weekend!!  You’d think with school starting this week and the kids gone for eight hours a day, I’d feel free, refreshed and at a loss to what to do with all this extra time…NOT!!! Getting back into a schedule...

The Brick Wall

Recently, I heard one of the coolest stories I have ever had the pleasure of listening to. LOVE IT WHEN THAT HAPPENS!! In a nutshell, this girl I met is from another country and she grew up poor (no shoes or food kind of poor), but persevered against all odds until...

Sleeping with the Enemy

Don’t know if you have seen the Julia Roberts’ movie Sleeping with the Enemy from 1991, but if you haven’t…you gotta see it!  It’s scary, psychotic, thrilling and freeing.  One of my all-time favorites and it makes you feel better when the bad guy gets taken down in...

Telling Our Story

The other day I heard something profound…well, it was to me at least. The message went something like this:  Spreading Christianity isn’t about quoting the Bible, regurgitating a list of rules or even telling someone about what our churches say we should or shouldn’t...

A Change of Plans

On Tuesday I discussed the importance of revisiting our 2014 goals and making an effort to accomplish as many as possible. However, I failed to mention the probability of a change of plans…and oh, are there sometimes BIG changes in the plans we make!! For example, if...