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Tag: Friends

  • beautiful home

    Recently I had dinner at a friend’s house, and I have to be honest, I love it there. I told her that I can’t wait until I can adult like her. Beautiful surrounds her at every turn.  I was sharing with one of my daughters while driving to the grocery store how my friend’s house…

  • Trust and the Consequences

    You know how you think you know stuff and then you realize all of a sudden that you really don’t?  That has been my experience this past week. A dear friend of mine is working through some books and studies with me to figure out how to get to a healthier place in the whole…

  • A Deep Breath

    There is a place I find myself…sometimes…it is no longer a place of deep grief, but of deep sighing. A place where I find myself needing  the strengthing of a deep breath, the focus of a whispered prayer, and the hope of an all-powerful God. In the past, this place has been about me…about my…

  • The Before…and After

    God has brought me far. Some may think I need to be farther along on this path of healing and hoping and growing. But I believe I am. I’m much farther along than I was before my life changed quickly and irrevocably. I’m much farther along than the days before… Before  …            after So much…

  • So Loved

    I feel kind of silly because I so wanted to write daily and that lasted about a week.  Best laid plans… I’m determined to get in the habit because it helps my focus.  Hopefully, tomorrow?!? This week is my last of graduate class homework!  Yippee!  I really don’t even have time to write right this…

  • Enough to be Happy and Healthy

       Last evening I had the pleasure of sitting with an eighty-three year old gentleman at a church dinner in the fellowship hall of a lovely little Baptist church.  He was so sweet and kind.  A fellow that clearly had worked hard all his life.  He told me about his grandchildren and attending the dedication…

  • When You Just Need to See Him…

    While standing in the line at the grocery store yesterday, my phone rang.  It was a friend from church.  She said, “Hey, I’m bringing dinner to you tonight – you gonna be there in 30 minutes?” I’m sure the lady at the register thought I was a little nuts (yeah that happens a lot) because…

  • Do You Know How to Count?

       I discovered today that a broken foot has one odd benefit.  I can wear socks out of the box under my bed.  It’s a box full of socks with no match, but they are ones I really like so I keep holding out hope the match will miraculously appear.  So far no luck.  (and…

  • Wading Into the Waves Holding My Savior’s Hand

    Wading Into the Waves Holding My Savior’s Hand Just saw that my newest blog is up at MomLifeToday.  I hope you enjoy it. I’d also like to ask for prayer as I begin a new book proposal!  Working on Chapter 1…draft number 1,365,279…just kidding, it just feels that way! I’m so excited about the idea…

  • SHARING SOME THOUGHTS ON ROMANCE

    SHARING SOME THOUGHTS ON ROMANCE I’ve been learning a lot about love lately.  Loving my children well.  Loving my friends well.  Loving my family well.  Loving my Lord the best.  And especially how the Lord loves me. When I was looking up verses on love, it was amazing how many times God uses the word…