It’s my Taylor girl’s birthday today and she’s 19!! Obviously this pic is from last year. 🙂 In the celebrating spirit, I’ve created an updated printable prayer to share. I have learned more than I ever dreamed from Taylor. Persistence, courage, joy, hope, grace, and love are just a few of the life lessons she teaches…
Just the name “waiting room” gives me a headache. Does it for you? Do you ever look at the drive thru line and decide not to stop because you don’t want to wait? Or put your three items back at the grocery store because you just can’t wait for the checkout line? (PS: Self-checkout is…
I know you’ve been there. When there is no way you can keep going. You’ve been overtaken by fatigue and just opening your eyes requires more energy than you can muster. At this point, you ask yourself: How can I be an overcomer when all I feel is overwhelmed? Yet another day arrives and life continues….
This weekend while I was reading the #WinoverWorry Bible reading challenge, I was thinking about how many of you have responded to this challenge! When I did the reading for yesterday, I remembered a couple posts I had written about anxiety and worry and the 8 Bible Memory verse cards to kick anxiety to the…
I may or may not have been called a word nerd in school. You too? Whew, I feel better. Word puzzles and games are incredibly fun to me! I guess that’s why Bible verse scavenger hunts have always been a favorite of mine. What’s a Bible Verse scavenger hunt? 1. Read the question. 2. Look up…
Have you ever told someone you would pray for them, but then life got busy and you forgot to write it down? Or you wrote it down and then it was a “my dog ate my homework” scenario? Maybe you noticed someone really discouraged, a friend, relative, or co-worker, and you wanted to remember to lift…
There’s no doubt about the fact that I’m a sunshine girl. But life’s crazy hurricanes and tornadoes have taught me that brilliant rays of hope and light come from within- not without.  A few years ago, this lesson was made a bit more real to me when on a particularly dreary winter day, a package…
Today I was a bit reminiscent of the Christmas lights. I know- they had to come down at some point. Â But it occurred to me that I don’t have many Valentine decorations and really, for the month of love, I could do better than my very plain mantel and bare front door. So I started…
I’m so excited to unveil a little project I’ve been working on as a gift to you, my readers! Woohoo! The recent article series, Women in the Bible, was so well-loved that I wanted to share the series with you in an easy-to-read format for 10 women of the Bible, Beautiful and Brave! This beautiful book…