Heart throbs and happiness. Poetry and primroses. This is our ideal of love, isn’t it? Walking on clouds, glowing with adoration, swelling with happiness. Knowing that you have finally found “the one” and that you will soon be starting your happily ever after…. But we know deep down that true love is made of sturdier […]
The Overlooked Value of Intergenerational Friendships
The next time you are in a coffee shop, or at a restaurant, or even in a church, take a minute to look around. I’m sure you’ll see lots of friends enjoying each other’s company. I’m also sure very few of those groups will be inter-generational. Young moms hang out with other young moms, and […]
6 Ways to Use Your Home for God’s Glory
Amongst all the other adulting we have going on around here — getting a new job, trying to get on our own insurance, and having a baby — we are also in process of trying to buy a house. That has been a long, agonizing, gut-wrenching process. But God has used this extra difficult phase […]
How to Stop Comparisons… In Ministry?
They say the first step is admitting that you have a problem. So here it goes. I have blog envy. I was going through some very encouraging Christian blogs this week, reading what they had to say, poking around to see what they did, and reading about some of their successes. God has gifted some […]
How Your Creativity Reflects the Image of God
My dad told me once that there is no such thing as a creative person. He said that if you looked at every single individual on the whole planet from the day God made Adam and Eve to the present and even the future, you would not find one person that was creative. Not one. […]