Does your body ever make it challenging to be patient?

Do you ever see things online and think, "Oh yea, I can totally do that!"? I happen to be a little too familiar with this. The homes on Instagram filled with botanicals in every light-filled nook and cranny just speak to my soul! So naturally, when I found a $7 olive tree on sale at the store, it made...

Scripture Focus: Matthew 3:10-12 John baptizing and preparing the way for Jesus

My five-year-old daughter just started playing basketball. Lucky for my husband and me, we get to be the coaches. Last night was our first ever game to coach or have a child play, and let me just tell ya, it was INTENSE. The scrappiness that came out of these little girls was shocking. We had a couple of girls that...

At our Thanksgiving dinner this year, my dad, fortunately, switched us to talking about hope instead of the other thrilling topics of politics, colonoscopies, and sleep apnea. Then in church the next day our preacher, Jody Vickery, spoke on the same topic... hope that is, not colonoscopies thank goodness.

Have you heard the saying "Bad things come in 3's"? Here lately, my family has lived that out when our heat, fireplace and toilet all decided to gang up on us at the same time. The blessing and curse of home ownership, right?

Sure, the candy, the costumes, the parties are nice but all the other stuff about Halloween doesn't sit well with a scaredy-cat like me! I'll pass the goblins and move along to the turkey and pumpkin pie, please.