Life Lessons
This Is Your Season
Unexpected loss. Like you, I’ve buried people I didn’t expect to. COVID casualties. Old age. Freak accidents. Cancer. Heart attack. Suicide … One loss in particular caught me off guard.…
Read MoreBe My Valentine
Valentine’s Day is upon us. Florists, jewelers, chocolatiers, and card companies want your man to declare his love with big bouquets, diamond baubles, and fancy boxes of deliciousness accompanied by…
Read MoreLife Lessons From Tiny Ballerinas
Before everything was shuttered … Mr. 4-Ever and I, along with hundreds of others, sat in a hot, crowded auditorium for hours to watch a parade of teeny girls in…
Read More3 Things To Remember When Life Is Hard
One of those days. Do you ever have one of those days when it seems like everything conspires against you? The computer swallows four days of work and won’t spit…
Read More3 Goal Setting Tips for 2021
We made it! 2020 is in the history books. After the crazy year we just wrapped up, talking about New Year resolutions and setting goals seems ridiculous. So much…
Read MoreCreative Connections
Creative connections. God never intended that we do this life alone. The Author of Life designed marriage to create families who live in community. According to the National Institute on…
Read MoreI Don’t Love Change
Nothing New. In my quiet time this morning, I realized I was sitting on 25 year old couches, looking at faux-finish painted walls which were all the rage about ……
Read MoreWant a better life? Be thankful!
Being thankful has myriad benefits. Being thankful rewards us with better health, cheerier dispositions and deeper, more meaningful relationships. Thankful people enjoy a stronger sense of well-being, suffer fewer symptoms…
Read MorePreach the Gospel to Yourself
What a week. My 24 year old clothes dryer quit. Before I could make arrangements to fix or replace it, I found myself at the ER with Jake, who’d…
Read MoreLean In, Listen Up
Wedding Bells Last week, Dave and I celebrated 19 years of (mostly) wedded bliss. Like so many other couples, we’d included I Corinthians 13:4-8 in our ceremony so I reminisced…
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