So often what we want is not really what we need. We want a cheeseburger, but we need a salad. We want to ride off into the sunset bad boy, but we need to grow old with a solid, dependable best friend. We want to run kicking and screaming at the first sign of trouble, […]
Last week when I decided to take a short break from blogging, my intentions were good. I thought. I just feel compelled to be quiet, to prepare my heart, and to refuel my soul. Things that don’t necessarily come naturally to me. But looking back I am sure if I was exactly honest with you, […]
Six months ago, I wrote a post stating that I wanted to get my hands dirty. (Interesting to note that I also wrote posts about other big hairy audacious goals like getting married and having kids. And unfortunately I’ve got nothing to report in either area. NOTHING.) In the post I said, It is easy […]
I just love that Stephen Brewster is wrapping up the How He Loves series. A few months ago as the Senior Director of Marketing for Integrity Music, Stephen introduced me to John Mark McMillan and the song that inspired this series. Even more, I love that Stephen, his lovely wife, and beautiful kids just moved […]
I am one of those people who has lots of circles of friends. Single girl friends, church friends, work friends, “campus” friends, Powered by Hope friends, blogging friends, twitter friends, high school friends, college friends, Birmingham friends, camp friends…just to name a few. So naturally I have several friends who have never had the opportunity […]
This morning at Cross Point, Pete Wilson talked about our greatest temptation as Christians. He said, “Our greatest temptation is not that which is ridiculously evil, but that which is deceptively good.” Oh, how that rings true in my life. Oh, how I seem to place too much importance on WHATEVER is going well in my life. […]
