“I think we should do a calendar together. I’ll paint a watercolor for each month, and you could write a few lines of inspiration to go along with the painting.” I’m seated alone, about a year after my sister uttered these thoughts on one of our phone dates, working on that very calendar. A dream […]
Cultivating Your Dreams When It Seems There’s No Time Read More »
Welcome to my Summer Blog Swap. Over the next four weeks, I am inviting four of my writing friends to this space to share their hearts and perspective. It’s a fun way to introduce some of my favorite writers to all of you. This week I’d like you to meet Carol Graft. Carol loves to encourage and equip
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The pool in our backyard had just been completed, and all my children except one jumped in without a second thought, without fear. But my youngest was four years old, and until now, he hadn’t been around much water. As I helped him put on his bathing suit, I told him how much fun he
Welcome to my Summer Blog Swap. Over the next four weeks, I am inviting four of my writing friends to this space to share their hearts and perspective. It’s a fun way to introduce some of my favorite writers to all of you. This week I would like you to meet Dorina Lazo Gilmore. We met
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Welcome to my Summer Blog Swap. Over the next four weeks, I am inviting four of my writing friends to this space to share their hearts and perspective. It’s a fun way to introduce some of my favorite writers to all of you. This week I would like you to meet my friend Tara Dickson.
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Life really could be full of the best things if we could learn to let go and trust our Maker. Are we not the vine and He’s the gardener? When all 7 of us prepare the ground for a garden, my heart races with anticipation for the coming harvest. I wrote more about it Here.
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Everything beautiful always begins with a willingness to surrender. This thought continues to race through my mind as I sit in the hospital room with my 95-year-old grandma. She lives in Pittsburg. I live in Mississippi. This distance, I’m embarrassed to admit, kept us from seeing each other for eight years. I wish I hadn’t
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Dear Brave Soul, On behalf of the church as a fellow Believer, I just wanted to reach out and say I’m sorry. Your pain and grief is seen and I’m sorry we didn’t allow space and time for you to grieve your loss. And I’m even more sorry we fill the uncomfortable silence with Christian clichés. You are
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Do you ever tell yourself you’ll finally have peace when the house is clean and de-cluttered? Or when the kids finally get along? Maybe when things settle down in the world? Or when that one relationship is restored? Maybe you’re waiting to be financially set, and debt is paid off. It seems we are always
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I’ve spent my entire life apart from extended family. No aunts and uncles living next door. No grandparents to babysit or pick me up after school. Really it was just my mom because my dad traveled for work most of the time and my only sister is ten years older, who left for college when
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