Don't you just love spending nice quiet fun weekends with your family? Yeah, me too. Well...sometimes ya just gotta spend a wild and crazy fun weekend with your family! This past weekend I think I may have exceeded the definition of wild and crazy fun...have you ever been cliff jumping? It is quite fun - I wrote a post last year about my initial cliff jumping adventure and that left a few people thinking I had lost my mind! This year … [Read more...]
Archives for 2010
Voice of Truth – Music Monday
In my recent interview with Mary Beth Chapman, wife of Steven Curtis Chapman - she made reference to a song her husband co-wrote (Voice of Truth) and it took me back to a time in my life when this song got me through a particularly rough time in my life. You see my husband was working some 80 hours a week (and that is not an exaggeration) and at times I thought I wasn't going to survive the strain it was putting on our marriage, our family and … [Read more...]
A Real Writer?
It may sound a bit cliche', but I write because I must. I have enjoyed writing for many years, actually most of my life. I have always written because I enjoy writing - getting thoughts out of my head and on paper. It has been amazing to me that in the last couple of years what I write actually means something to other people and is featured in publications. It is truly remarkable to me that what I am writing is changing lives and … [Read more...]
I Will Follow Him – Music Monday
When I watched this music video it evoked emotion in me. This is how I have pretty much gone through life feeling. I'm supposed to be this "proper lady" who loves Jesus and so I do what's pleasing and expected of me...but I really just want to cut loose and love Jesus RADICALLY and LOUDLY in word and deed!!! A Godly man I deeply respect once told my husband..."Your wife is a little special, she's sweet ... and spicy." I'm still … [Read more...]
Happy MOMents Quietly Observed
Watching my teen daughter and son playfully "razz" each other about who is "cute" at school! Teens that still find joy in quietly watching a hummingbird enjoy our feeder. My daughter folding her brothers clothes he hadn't gotten to yet. A rip stick with a broken wheel from over use. My son declaring that he didn't want to sit with certain boys at school because they talk crudely about girls. The childlike enjoyment of ice cream by … [Read more...]
YouTube Teenage Dangers
I thought it was bad when my brothers used to get together with their friends and come up with stupid activities to participate in when they had a bit too much time on their hands! Stupid yes, overtly harmful? No. Evidently the current generation of teens have gotten into the habit of spending some time trolling through the murky videos on YouTube "researching" new and inventive ways of having stupid fun which involves danger. All in the name … [Read more...]
30 Day Challenge…For Your Daughter
My fellow blogger over on MomLife Today, Mrs. Dannah Gresh, is doing something magnificent on her Secret Keeper Girl website - she's challenging moms to spend 30 days in prayer for their daughters! Wanna commit to doing just that with me? My sweet, wonderful 17 year old daughter is entering her senior year of High School and I am all for being a part of Dannah's prayer challenge! There are more than a few decisions my daughter will be … [Read more...]
Beautiful For Me – Music Monday
Here's the message all parents need to infuse into their children! This is the soundtrack for the new Veggie Tales movie Sweet Pea based on the story of Sleeping Beauty. You can get a free copy of this new Veggie Tales movie if you donate now to FamilyLife! … [Read more...]
Sanctus Real Up Close
Well hey there friends! Today was an awesome day! We are having the annual FamilyLife Staff Conference and we were blessed beyond measure with the worshipful experience of time spent with the amazing band Sanctus Real! This is a band that is well loved by the youth of America - and their parents. It is an odd thing to see standing before you the men that you have sung with through your i-pod and daily Christian radio. Gaining an … [Read more...]
Family Reunion
Time marches on. For me that was easily and eerily obvious this past weekend when I gathered with extended family at a family reunion. How in the world can "cute little Jackson" be the father of an 18 month old? It literally blew my mind to see him chasing that little guy around the yard. Him a father...really? Wasn't it just a couple years ago that he was bragging about finally being able to drive? Obviously it was more than a couple years … [Read more...]
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