Serious About Faith. Light-Hearted About Life.
Today’s post isn’t funny or witty. It isn’t meant to be convicting or profound. It’s simply a request for prayers.
On Saturday night at about 7:00pm a grain elevator in Atchison, Kansas exploded. At the time of writing, three people are dead. Three are still missing (presumed dead) and two are hospitalized.
Unforeseen tragedies happen every day throughout our cities, nation and world. So why is this one so different for me? [Read more…]
STOP. Right there.
Don’t move. Take a deep breath. In the nose and out the mouth… Seriously. Do it. That wasn’t good enough. Try again. We aren’t moving on til you do. In the nose, out the mouth.
Ahhhhh… Feel better? I do.
Honestly, I didn’t know if you felt “un-good” to start with… but sometimes life can get hurried. Like, a lot. Busyness isn’t really biased to one day of the week, and stress can strike at anytime. Yes, even Fridays. [Read more…]
Today’s post is brought to you by:
1) Advice from my mama
2) The movie Bambi
3) My personal life frustrations
Quite a list huh? This should be interesting. [Read more…]
Fear is… well, scary. (Duh, right?) There are a lot of different types of fears, big, little, valid, irrational, profound, imaginary etc. But being humans, it seems to be a part of our life. But it’s amazing how relief comes to alleviate our fears so awesomely and suddenly– in the most surprising places.
Yesterday was my first time to do staff devotional at our weekly staff meeting. I was excited, and a smidgen apprehensive, almost kind of intimidated. I mean seriously, our equipping staff (aka pastors/minister-ish people) totaled it up a couple weeks ago and determined that they have 99 years of ministry experience between them. Yeah, I’m going on like 4 months. No pressure, right? [Read more…]
I can think of a variety of descriptions for “True Love,” specifically within marriage. Some of these ideas include rewarding, challenging, refreshing, educational, hilarious, frustrating, growth-oriented, blessed… Oh, and we can’t forget that true love in marriage is precious (both truly precious and also sometimes a little sarcastically precious.)
We’ve already talked about the aspects of the first year of marriage that Brandon and I have experienced in a previous post entitled A Butterfly Year. But I was reminded today (and for the last year or so) how truly precious true love can be, especially within our marriage. [Read more…]
God shows up in the most random places. Sometimes, it just leaves you flustered and happy and overwhelmed, all at the same time. And it’s a good thing. Here’s what went down…
Last Thursday night, I drove to Atlanta to retrieve our Aunt Rita from the airport (Sidenote: Huge airports kind of stress me out when I have to drive– I had to make three laps around the terminal before I could locate her and the cops would stop blowing their whistle at me. But I digress.) [Read more…]
Sometimes, you just need to slow down… and laugh.
This week has been surprisingly bonkers for me. What I though was going to be relatively chill since I am on “school break” for a week became working overdrive at home and work. But hey it’s Friday… So why not take a few moments to CHILLAX and laugh?
I am a big fan of animals. In fact, I was planning on being a veterinarian until midway through my junior year of college when I discovered that I work even better with people than I do with animals. (That would have been handy info two chemistry classes and one and half physics classes prior. SIGH) But in my attempt to relax and enjoy what I hope to be a calm(er) Friday, I wanted to briefly share with you some “animal fun.” [Read more…]
Christ Community Church Youth Presentation Week Two: DOMINATED. (By God!) Boom. America.
This is the text message I sent my boss Kelli last night after I finished presenting my second week of teaching to our church’s youth and youth leadership team. Dontcha just love it when God shows up and meets you there? Ahhhh… [Read more…]
I am not now and do not predict that I will ever become a movie critic. But that’s the great part about doing your own blog– you can kind of write about what you want. Definitely exercising that privilege today! 🙂
This last Sunday night, my beloved and I went to see the movie “Courageous.” Here are the reasons that this is “big” news:
1) We almost never go to the movies.
2) When we do go, we usually go in the middle of the afternoon or early evening, not prime time. Apparently, movies are expensive.
3) We actually agreed that we both wanted to see the movie (I was already convinced that I wanted to go, but he agreed after seeing the movie trailer played at church) Oh, and sidenote on this point: We RARELY agree on movies/TVs… So this was a big deal. (Granted, if cinematic adventure selection is the biggest rift in our marriage, I’m ok with that.) [Read more…]
Patience is…
Annoying? Impossible? Frustrating? A struggle? A virtue?
Pretty sure my opinion of “patience” has covered all of these descriptors– and more. I have never been a very patient person (Ahem, see yesterday’s post…)
Seriously, as a little girl, I didn’t just want things to happen now, I wanted them to happen yesterday… HURRY UP! The most dreaded words coming out of my Mama’s mouth (then and to this day) rivaled “Wait until your father gets home” in the form of “You are just going to have to wait and see…” followed by “Patience is a virtue.” [Read more…]
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