I stood on the back porch leaning against the house, shoulders drooped, hair covering my face as tears fell drip by drip onto the cement. I’d taken the trash out, but wasn’t quite ready to go back into the house. I was hoping I could also dump the trash in my soul right there on […]
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7 Truths about Friendship During the Fledging Years {Giveaway!}
Today’s post comes from my friend Brenda Yoder who just released a book for parents titled Fledge: LaunchingYour Kids Without Losing Your Mind. It was my pleasure to not only endorse this book, but to also write the foreword for it (a first for me!). As a friend and mom who is a stage ahead of […]
How to Pray When You’re Stressed Out {plus a giveaway!}
I’m excited to introduce you to my friend Jessie Clemence. I first met Jessie a few years ago at a writers conference. Not long after, we ended up on the planning committee for said conference together. We worked through some nerve-wracking, stressful situations. (Conferences are not easy to plan! Especially when you want to do […]
Love Vs. You
This week, I’m honored to participate in a blog series on the topic of love with Baker Book House. I was in elementary school when I first reached out to my neighbors with Jesus’ love. That was also when I first learned sharing Jesus’ love wasn’t as easy as I thought it was. My childhood […]
4 Daily Spiritual Practices to Promote Good Mental Health
Giveaway winners! I apologize, I got a little behind with the holidays and a round of birthdays! I’ll be contacting these winners. Thanks for participating! A Song of Home: A Novel of the Swing Era (Pearl Spence Novels) by Susie Finkbeiner- Karen Sunlight Burning at Midnight by Jessica Ronne – Julie B. As My Parents […]
How the Joy of the Lord Can Be Your Strength
“This is it. This is her final journey home,” my husband said. For the past 24 hours, our phones had blown up with text messages from my father-in-law. My husband’s 94-year-old grandmother was in the hospital. The doctors had just made their diagnosis. This would be her journey to Heaven. She had told us for […]