Women don’t join a small group because they want to show off their new scarf or nail polish color. They get plenty of superficial interaction during the rest of the week! Women come to small group because they want to be part of something. They want to pour the...
It’s true! I’m expecting…. …. my first BOOK! (Sorry, no baby… But books are exciting, too, right?) I’m very, VERY excited to announce that, just last night I signed a contract with Thomas Nelson for my first book, titled Control...
A friend was recently giving me an update on how it’s going–now that his oldest child is behind the wheel. He said he grips the door handle and yells a lot, and it seems to be working!I laughed and told him I’d have to try his grip-n-yell technique....
He called at 6:45 p.m. to say he was ready to be picked up, but I had accidentally forgotten my phone.I didn’t get there till 8:00 p.m.It was a long night for my boy.It was a ‘pickup game’ of lacrosse. But apparently he had more skills to pick up...
I was in Target recently, shopping in the athletic wear, when a conversation in the next aisle made me lose all interest in gym shorts. In stead of outfitting my son for track, what I wanted to do was go find this little girl, who was talking to her mom. She was like...
First, can I just comment that a lot of my writing material comes from Costco? (Like this and this and this.) I can’t decide if it’s because I’m at Costco all the time, or because extraordinary things happen there. Maybe both.So I was driving through...
Jen has a little wall hanging in her house that reads, “The Best Place in the World is Together”.She remembers fondly a time that she and the kids were making plans for the day. A suggestion was made that they would split up, with Daddy and one sister...
Words of blessing, allowed to sift into a soul’s murky depths, often act like yeast. Over time, these yeast-like words have the power to activate and give rise to areas of giftedness which otherwise might have lain dormant. Words can cause people to rise and expand...
A few years ago, I spoke at a moms group on the topic of ‘beauty’. While I planned to speak mostly about inner beauty, I didn’t want to seem completely disqualified to present the topic! So, in front of my mirror that morning, I tried to muster all the beauty I...
Recently, I was talking to one of my teens about an upcoming choice. I was laying out the consequences and helping her consider the cost of not doing what she should do.But she cut me off, and said, “Mom, STOP. You’re guilting me for something that...