[pinit] Last summer we took our first ever family vacation that didn’t involve staying with friends or family. For a week just the four of us explored places 3/4 of us had never been before. (When you grow up spending your summers in a tour bus traveling the country with your family’s ministry, well there […]
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Limping to the finish line
[pinit] [tweetherder]Starting things is easy. Finishing sometimes takes everything you’ve got.[/tweetherder] This month, the challenge is to finish the school marathon. We’re at mile 18 – far enough in the race that people are telling you “You’re almost there.” You know the finish line is close, yet you have so far to go. Everything hurts. […]
What my mother taught me about changing the world
[pinit] The news stream surrounding Mother’s Day was overwhelming this year. Over 250 Girls kidnapped in Nigeria and missing for weeks. A college campus shooting an hour from us. Families still waiting for word about their missing loved ones on a Malaysian airplane. If I focused on the stream of news for too long, I […]
The Hard Work of Resting
Congratulations to the 3 winners of the I Like Giving books: Patty, Rachel S, and Creagon. I’ll be e-mailing you all soon. Thank you to everyone who entered! I wish I had more books to give away. Be sure to check out I Like Giving: The Transforming Power of a Generous Life on Amazon or […]
I Like Giving {a giveaway!}
I love a good story, especially when it’s a true story. So a book full of true, inspiring, even tear-provoking stories? I’m so there. If you love inspiring, true stories too, be sure to leave a comment on the bottom of this post to enter the drawing for the new book I Like Giving: The […]
Soul Keeping {a review}
[pinit] What is your soul? How do you take care of your soul? Seasoned author and pastor, John Ortberg, answers these questions and more in his latest book, Soul Keeping: Caring For the Most Important Part of You. Combining pieces of his own story with exhortations from his friend and mentor, Dallas Willard, and clear […]