It’s a great honor for me to host a guest blog from Kelly Minter. Her book Wherever The River Runs has been one of my favorite reads the past 6 months. In fact I bought a box of them to give all my girl friends for Christmas. Her beautiful use of words, her great sense of humor, her … Read More about Faith and Fishing: A Story From The Amazon Jungle
A Vision for Your Family
On a bleak, rainy day in 1904, Jenny Butchart stood atop a rock at the rim of a quarry and gazed fifty feet below to the quarry floor. Pieces of rock and stagnant puddles were everywhere. For the past fifteen years her husband’s company in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, had been excavating limestone and clay … Read More about A Vision for Your Family
Sometimes I Get Stuck – Do You?
When I was a young mother with five small children I got stuck. Most of the time, I simply felt like a failure. I wasn’t living up to my expectations of myself as a Mom or a wife or a ministry partner. With colicky 2 month old twins, 2, 4, and 7 year olds, I … Read More about Sometimes I Get Stuck – Do You?
The Master Gardener
The old gardener crinkles his nose as he bends over to smell the soft pink peonies. A wonderful sweet fragrance seems to surround him, and he wishes he could bottle it up and take it home. Surely no man – made perfume can match this heavenly scent. Straightening his bent frame, he glances toward heaven, … Read More about The Master Gardener
I Can Be a Picky Wife
It happened again. I was simply sitting with a cup of tea as I began to think about my husband. I wish he’d appreciate me just a little bit, I said to myself. He didn’t even notice what I did in the house today. And that one thing I asked him to do last week, he still … Read More about I Can Be a Picky Wife
Encouragement for the Season of Parenting Teens
Recently I was sitting in a coffee shop talking with several Moms who had teens or who were approaching the teen years. I threw out a question: “When you think of raising teens, what’s your main emotional response?” “Fear, frustration, quilt, and loneliness. “ One Mom added, “excitement. “ Just as in the other seasons … Read More about Encouragement for the Season of Parenting Teens
I Don’t Like New Years Resolutions
I really don’t like New Year’s resolutions. Why? Because I usually make lots of promises that I am not able to live up to. So often my list contains things that have been on it before, things I never managed to do throughout the whole year. It becomes a list of defeats. Now this doesn’t … Read More about I Don’t Like New Years Resolutions
A Note to Those Who Fall and the Ones Who Love Them
I’m honored to share my friend Sara Hagerty‘s blog with you today. She is the author of the new book Every Bitter Thing Is Sweet: Tasting the Goodness of God in All Things Before I bite my nails and dive into a part of my story so very near to my understanding of who God is … Read More about A Note to Those Who Fall and the Ones Who Love Them
