Yesterday as I picked my kiddo up from a church event, I could tell she was doing everything she could not to cry. “What’s wrong kiddo?” I asked. “You forgot to remind me to wear camo tonight, so I didn’t get ice cream,” she said. “You didn’t get ice cream because you didn’t wear camo, but other kids got ice
When you first meet someone and fall in love, the thoughts of getting married and raising a family together are exhilarating. The newness of getting to experience everything together for the first time is intoxicating. But then life happens. You realize over time that marriage is tough. Raising a family together is tough. Communicating with your partner is tough. Continuing
Last night at the Rhett Walker concert, a group of five people were invited up on stage to sing with him. They got to pick the songs they sang. There was one lady who stayed hesitant to sing. Rhett played the intro to a Garth Brooks song. She immediately knew the words and took the microphone. He paused playing and
This week, I had the blessing of attending the final session of the 412 Student Conference, where Jeff Wallace delivered a powerful message about living a life that reflects Christ. His insights challenged us to develop in three critical areas: upward, inward, and outward. Here’s a recap of the key takeaways that you can apply in your daily walk with
On the way home from school recently, my little girl asked me, “Mommy, isn’t pink a girl’s color?” “Why do you ask,” I responded. She proceeded to tell me how a boy had worn a pink shirt to school, and she’d asked him why he wore pink. “Did you genuinely want to know why, or did you ask for another
Don’t engage with the entitled. That was my thought yesterday as I watched a heated exchange in the drive thru of a fast food restaurant. I had just received our order after 18 minutes of feeling stuck in the line, quietly saying to myself, “So much for ‘fast’ food.” The altercation involved two other patrons just starting their adventure in
For the last two nights I have managed to wake myself up around 2:00 a.m. compliments of my hand scratching my swollen foot before I am awake enough to stop it from fighting with the histamines that are fighting with the melittin from the bee venom in my body. 🐝 + 🦶 = 😣 Like any good patient in the
As we headed out to pull four frames of honey from our beehive, my husband and I couldn’t have been further from our polar opposites in our personalities. I was fully dressed in my bee suit, ready to follow him across the pasture to collect our sweet reward for the first time after a year of tending to the bees.
Paul Harvey used to sign off his radio shows with the words, “Now you know…the rest of the story.” Proverbs 18:17 is a great filter for all things we hear and for reminding us of the need to get “the rest of the story” when we are told stories. It reads, “The one who states his case first seems right,
Earlier this week, I saw a lady crossing the road as I was driving home. On one arm she was balancing a bag full of leftovers from the restaurant kitchen where she works. On the other arm she was cradling a large jug of tea. In her hands she was holding a few small other odds and ends. While the
