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Quiet time this week has been pulled from Sarah Young's, Jesus Calling. Today's devotion, September 17, is all about planning and the need to control. (Sarah references 1 Peter 5:6-7; Proverbs 16:9 and Psalm 37:5)I am a huge sufferer of this illness. I flip through my journal to document my freakish need to plan and [...]

I walk alone. With only my sadness; my grief; the dark.Doing it my way.As I run ahead, I turn back to see You in the distance. Waiting.Patient.Indulgent.Eternal.You watch as I stretch the distance.You wait as I dare to do more.You mourn as I turn back less.The inevitable.I stumble. I dive headlong.Thinking it will be good.Convinced [...]

Pumpkin Banana BreadPreheat oven to 350Grease and flour loaf pan (I use Crisco and then use white sugar instead of flour...Oh. My. Word.)1 1/2 cup sugar1/2 cup butter, softened2 eggs, lightly beaten1 cup mashed bananas (about 2 large)3/4 cup canned pumpkin 1 tsp vanilla1 3/4 cup flour2 tsp baking powder1/2 tsp salt1 tsp baking soda1/2 [...]

There was a time when I would run from conviction. Run and ignore.Over the last few years, however, I have learned to embrace conviction. In fact, I find that conviction equals freedom: I no longer need to do it myself. He sees, He is there to help me.Yesterday, during Worship, was just such a conviction.It wasn't [...]

.I sit looking out the sliding glass doors from our living room to the deck and the woods beyond. The rising sun is streaming through the tops of the trees and it is so peaceful. I can almost imagine that everything is just the way it is supposed to be. It is not. A part of [...]

Strap yourselves in. This is going to get bumpy.While on vacation last week, God and I had quite the "come to Jesus moment." Several of them actually.In all honesty, He is really quite done with my whole little tantrum-throwing-it's-never-about-me junk.I run with God. I am a wife. I am a mom. I serve in our [...]

My Man and I, when we have had a moment or two to talk without a gaggle of kids around, have always laughed about the one thing we have truly done "right." We made some pretty dern good-looking kids. The reason we laugh about this is because, obviously, the only hand in this we had [...]

You would think I would know this by now. But I don't.I am still floored when my life goes straight from one "thing" to another.For instance, with My Girl. Two steps forward, one step back is the norm. I am still taken aback when the "one step back" occurs. Just as I help my sister [...]

If there is one thing I cannot stand, it is someone blaming everyone/everything else and not taking responsibility for their own actions (The Blame Game) and his ugly cousin, That's Not My Job.I suppose I expect more from people working in ministry. You blew it. Own up to it! If it falls under your ministry [...]

Ok. We're going to take our annual photo on the rock at the miniature golf course.On your mark...Get set...Go!Seriously, why does it have to be so painful to get from A to C?