Posts by Gina Conroy
Experiencing God in Parenting
As I’ve been Experiencing Christ Within, I’ve also been challenged in my parenting. A while ago God led me from my restrictive, by-the-book parenting to a more Grace based parenting. It wasn’t an easy switch, and I still struggle with doling out consequences as my first reaction to parenting. But I’ve learned over the last…
Read MoreFall Fun For Your Little Ones
School is back in swing and cooler weather has arrived. Your schedule may be already quite full, but here are a few simple things you can do with your children that you might find both relaxing and educational. Identify the trees that the leaves came from using the Internet or a book on trees. Using…
Read MoreAudition Time
My boys have two auditions this weekend. Joey (9) wanted to audition for the musical THE WIZ and both he and Chris (12) want to audition for the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.Joey did pretty well in his audition today and though rhythmically challenged he managed to be asked to stay late with a…
Read MoreI’m a Goalaphobic!
Okay, there! I admit it! I’m a goalaphobic, but I haven’t always been this way. I used to make lists and write out pages and pages of goals and plans for my life five and ten years down the road. Then I had kids and the exercise, career and life long goals in general went…
Read MoreGod’s First Priority
I’ve mentioned before how I’ve been going through the Experiencing Christ Within workbook by Dwight Edwards. I’ve done my fair share of Bible studies, but this one seems so fresh and new. I am learning so much and hope some of what I’m learning is rubbing off. In week two, I explored the idea that…
Read MoreI’m Writing Again!
That’s right! I’ve got a green light! After my incredible experience at ACFW this year I felt an unexplainable peace about my writing or lack of writing. It’s hard to put into words except that the anxiousness to write and be published was gone, I was finally able to accept God’s timing. I knew I’d…
Read MoreIt’s Been One of Those Days
Let me set the mood by saying Blogger just crashed and lost my original post…So here’s take two: My body is weary, and my brain is fried. Maybe it’s the nine hours I spent at the State fair yesterday, (or maybe it’s all the mid-way junk food I ate!)Maybe it was one too many rollercoaster…
Read MoreFiction Fridays: My First Contract
At the ACFW Conference in Dallas last month God gave me a deep desire of my heart. And He did it in a way I can only call a kiss from heaven. Since I was a young girl, I have wanted to write. I have a shelf of journals at home that prove this. Periodically,…
Read MoreIntroducing: Mick Silva
Mick Silva is the youngest acquisitions editor at WaterBrook Press, specializing in narrative nonfiction and select fiction. The usual background stuff: 2 decades of Christian education in California. Eldest son to a pastorâs family of 3 boys. Some general Holden Caufield experience at a Christian college. Post-grad Europe trip to escape the frustrating absence of…
Read MoreThe Tag Of Four
Beck has tagged me with the four word meme. I have to personally define them, and THEN I get to tag four more people with words of my own choosing. Beck’s words: Callipygian: While studying biology this year I came across this term as some what of freakish species in nature. It’s the cross between…
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