As I write today’s blog post, it’s a mere four days away from Christmas. I know for those of you reading this post today, it’s probably not the Christmas season. It might be sunny and warm where you are or rainy and humid. Today, imagine with me for a few
Many of us can still remember the phrases we heard our parents say regularly. As we’ve grown up, we might have even found ourselves saying them too. My kids giggle when they hear me say, “We’re headed out like a herd of turtles.” I can still picture my mom’s face
The Power Behind Purpose On my night stand right now there is a cellphone. It’s about the size of my hand and fits perfectly into my back pocket. It has a gold, sparkly case and one of those cute little beaded keychains attached to the bottom for hanging on my
Forgiving through Prayer In my college years, I attended a Christian university and lived in a dormitory with 200 other women. I participated in countless romcom movie nights, painted a lot of nails, and helped quite a few friends get ready for a first date. As you might imagine, with
A few weeks ago, my family discovered the world of falling dominoes. This discovery sent us into a deep dive of extensive videos of domino showcases featuring high numbers of falling domino tiles, sometimes hundreds of thousands of tiles. If you’ve never seen one, the basic premise is that domino
We live right by the coast. So, each summer my family ends up at the beach quite often. No matter the weather, my kids love it. It doesn’t have to be hot for my kids to want to dive into the waves. In fact, as soon as the summer sun
A few years ago when I read through Ephesians, I underlined each instance of “in Christ,” “in Him,” “in the Lord,” and so on in purple. With a quick glance now, I count thirty times that Paul uses this phrase to emphasize Jesus’ redemptive work and the role it has
Growing up, my three siblings and I were pretty different. Even so, there was one thing that never failed to bring us all together – the smell of my mom’s chocolate chip pancakes cooking on the griddle next to sizzling bacon on a Saturday morning. Within minutes of the first
Every night before our two kids go to bed, we spend a little time together as a family reading the Bible, praying, and singing a few hymns. Our youngest, at almost three years old, often excitedly asks to pray right after his big sister. And as many toddlers like to
Rule Following vs Approval Seeking If you’ve ever spent any considerable amount of time around young children, you might have observed that kids take great delight in many things, but following the rules is not often one of them. At two years old, my youngest has an ever-changing relationship with