Abby and Yarisa enjoying the summer sun! Been looking forward to this for a while now ~ hanging out with all of these lovely ladies and the young girls for whom they pour out their lives on a weekly basis. Ita leading worship. This year the retreat they’ve planned is called “Daddy’s Girl”, and we… Read More Recipe For My Weekend: Daddy’s Girl Retreat!
“How many loaves do you have?” He asked them. It was in response to their question: “Where will anyone be able to find enough bread here in this desolate place to satisfy these people?” I think I’ve had the same sentiments in the last week and a half ~ Where WILL anyone be able to find… Read More Counting One Thousand Gifts ~ April
It was my age and my “title”, I think, that drew her to me about twelve years ago. I was the youngest, by many years, in our local Woman’s Club at the time, and a “pastor’s wife.” She seemed intrigued by my choices and life’s path. There was also the “Texas Connection”, which there often… Read More The Gifts of Cassie and Chuck
“I hadn’t known that joy meant dying. What did I think hard eucharisteo and the table of the Last Supper meant?” Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts, p. 179 +++ And He summoned the crowd with His disciples and said to them, “If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself, and take up… Read More Counting Gifts ~ Hard and Good
For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. And not only this, but also we ourselves groan within ourselves waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body. For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope,… Read More Sunday Snapshots
Gifts nailed together was the Joy Dare prompt for Friday. 1. His hands and feet to the Cross 2. My rescue and redemption 3. My forgiveness and freedom Thankfully, these three things were nailed… Read More Holy Week Gifts
This may be one of my favorite weeks of the year ~ Holy Week. We had a wonderful time celebrating Christ in the Passover with our church family on Wednesday night, participated in the profound and somber walking of the large wooden cross through town this afternoon, and will head to church again tonight for… Read More Gluten Free GOOD Friday ~ Triple Chocolate Cake
“In the midst of what seems a mess, in the tripping up and the stumbling down of all hopes, Jesus gives thanks? What precedes the miracle is thanksgiving, eucharisteo, and it is a Greek word with a hard meaning that is harder yet to live. Do I really want to take up this word?” One… Read More Counting One Thousand Gifts ~ March (and the Rubbermaid incident)
It was in Stillwater, OK, while working on one of my first Beth Moore Bible studies, that I first came across this verse from 2 Corinthians 1:20: “For no matter how many promises God has made, they are ‘Yes’ in Christ.” Or in my re-wording and mulling over: Christ is the fulfillment of every single… Read More Counting One Thousand Gifts ~ February
The alarm went off at 4am. We were out of bed a few minutes later and eating breakfast ~ ugh. A rice cake with peanut butter and honey, a banana, some regular H20 and a few swigs of Vitamin Water. I’d rather eat nothing until the race is over, but I know the fuel and… Read More Half Marathon #5 & Running Therapy