“My heart trusts in God, and he helps me.” It was cold, cloudy, wet, and dreary the weekend we traveled to Cartersville, Georgia, to interview for a potential staff position at a church. Our daughter was eighteen at the time and son fourteen, both plenty old enough to stay by themselves in our sunny warm…
“For you, LORD, are the Most High over all the earth.” Am I where I desired to be at this point in my life? No! I am not where I expected to be at this point in my life. I had dreams, aspirations, and a personal God-given mission. How does one deal with the disheartening…
“May the LORD smile on you…” The smile of a toddler when they see their mom has arrived to pick them up. The smile of friends when seeing each other for the first time in years. The heart of a parent glowing on the face when their son or daughter has returned safely and willingly…
Winter 2020/21 was a bit brutal with Covid making its mark. To be a super contagious virus, Covid swept through our family independently. Each of us have had it at different times avoiding catching it from each other. Silas came down with it in October, after being exposed to someone who had it. He had…
Revised post from December 2012 “Focus, Silas, focus,” seems to play like a broken record around our house these days. Off to accomplish the simple instruction to brush his teeth, which should be a quiet affair. From the bathroom, I hear singing and the countertop has become the little drummer boy’s drum. Instead of yelling from…
“Hey Janae! Did you mean to…?” The answer was, “NO!” I did not mean to send that email to 60 plus people outside of my teams. Adding insult to injury, I quickly discovered this email also contained wrong times for an upcoming event. The 60 plus people happen to include my boss and his boss…
Out of nowhere a powerful blow is delivered. It is – the not looking for it, didn’t see that one coming that throws us off. But to be hit twice unexpectedly is more than one can take. The shortest Psalm in the Bible offers a type of subtle double sucker punch in the most positive…
Distant, unconcerned, lack of power, and control is the God described in the popular series called Supernatural. We wonder sometimes, when things do not happen on our time table or things do not happen in the way we feel makes the most sense, if God has taken an extended leave of absence. The time I…
Have you ever had one of those moments where you want to retract a combination of words that spilled out of your mouth? Being an extrovert, unfortunately, I have had my share of moments. There have been times where I meant to say the words and other times I never intended for the words to…
“How does she do it?” Three jobs, goes to school, leads a Bible study and a home that looks like it could be featured in Joanna Gaines’ next issue of her Magnolia Journal. “She’s probably not happy and secretly suffers from panic attacks,” we tell ourselves. And she probably does! Whoever “she” is in our…