Are you a planner? An organized woman whose life runs on a schedule that would make the airline industry jealous? Do you have your life arranged so well that you can hit your calendar with a dart and know exactly where you’ll be and what you’ll be doing no matter which square it hits? I…
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.” ~Mother Teresa When I first met my sweet hubby, J, I fell hard for his beautiful heart. He hardly had two pennies to his name, but he had a heart of pure gold, and I was just plain smitten. He also had the tendency…
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33 NIV) How do we handle the anxiety that grows between our expectations and our reality? My first memory of true anxiety occurred during my…
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16 NIV) I don’t like to let people into the messy parts of my life. I don’t like to seem like I am not doing a good job. I don’t know if…
This story begins last year, the year of the novel coronavirus and racial awakenings and climate change prophecies that have marked all of us. On a summer day in our Texas town, with the heat so intense the locals call it “hair dryer weather,” I made a decision to purchase a Black Lives Matter yard…
Theme parks keep you engaged at every moment with games, rides, shops, parades, food, and—my personal favorite—fireworks. Soon, you forget that you’ve spent all your money, have been waiting in lines for hours, and have serious blisters forming on your feet. All your attention is on the person who just passed by with a fresh…