Continuing Christmas

Christmas is my all-time favorite holiday.  Who doesn’t enjoy sweets, presents and a cheerful disposition?!?! As much as I’d love to celebrate Christmas all year long, my waist line would expand and even my ‘fat jeans’ would not fit anymore.  Sigh. However for the...

Getting Ready

Now that Halloween is over and we are on the road to Thanksgiving, one can only assume that Christmas and New Year’s will be here before we know it. YIKES!!!  It’s the first week of November!  Can you believe it?  Where has 2014 gone?  I feel overwhelmed just thinking...

How Much Can One Person Take?

Have you ever found yourself at wits’ end?  Have you felt so depleted and exhausted that you could sleep for years? Have you lacked the energy to do anything but cry out with a big “I can’t do this anymore” but know that you really have no choice but to move forward?...

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...

Thank you, Jesus!

There are days when your life flashes before your eyes and you realize how fortunate you are to still be breathing!  Today was one of those days. After school and the grueling homework of first grade – yes, sometimes it feels like torture – Chase (my six-year-old)...