Faith
What are you passionate about?
Your husband? Hopefully. Your kids? Yes. God. YES! What about the stuff you do in your daily life? Can you honestly say you’re following your passions? This is a quote from Debbie Macomber’s book Knit Together. If you haven’t read it, you should. I highly recommend it. It’s about Debbie’s journey to becoming a NY…
On Transparency With Self
Okay, so we talked about being honest with God and being honest with others–not easy things to do–but before we can do that we have to be honest with our self–maybe the hardest of all. Why is it so hard to be honest with our self? To see our self as we truly are? Pride.…
Writing Fearlessly
Lately I’ve been thinking about living life fearlessly. What would my life look like if I lived in the moment, lived each day to its fullest, and took this life without fear. What could I accomplish? Who would I impact? How would God be glorified? And that gets me thinking about writing fearlessly. Look, we…
On Transparency With Others
Lately, I’ve been convicted about the need to be honest with each other. Let me throw a few questions out there for us to think about. Do we put on our happy Christian mask when we go to church or gather with other people, regardless of how we really feel? Do we give the same…
On Transparency With God
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about honesty. Being honest with God and others. Too many times we think we have to put on a good face for God and say the right things, the “spiritual” things to Him when we pray. LIke we’re going to impress Him with our spiritual prowess or something. But…
Waiting Game
Lately, it seems I’m spending quite a bit of time waiting. Waiting for projects to get finished. Waiting in carpool lines. Waiting for a letter to arrive. Waiting for a page to load. Waiting for the Next Thing. I’m not a very good “wait-er.” I feel impatience start rising from my toes and hit my…
Lesson Learned: Check
by Guest Author Mike Dellosso Mother Theresa once said, “You’ll never realize Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you got.” How true! Life gets busy, the appointment book fills up, plans are made, schedules set, gotta go here, go there, do this, meet them. We got it; we can handle it. There’s…
Grown-ups Get Scared Too
A few Sundays ago I taught in Children’s Church. We’re currently teaching a series on the life of David. My lesson this week was on a time when David got scared. He was sure Saul would eventually track him down and kill him. Forgetting God’s promise, David took his 600 men and their families and fled…
Writing Takes Discipline!
I have to sit down and work. I have to make goals. I have to meet goals. I’ve also found out that the more discipline I have in life the better my writing goes. I learned that when I have the discipline to eat right and exercise I sleep better, wake up with energy, and…