Last month I spent some time away with one of my dear friends. As were we talking, hashing out life, she shared a life struggle she was having with a family member as the holiday season approached. There was a great disparity between this family member’s expectations and desires and my friend’s. Add in the rude undertone projected from the… Read More

My friends are my heartstrings. We live life together and share our innermost thoughts and longings. Experiencing the daily rigor and joys of life, we feel each other’s deepest needs and desires. From this connectedness, we have pure, good, and right desires for each other, for our friends, prayers that the Lord plants in the deepest most delicate part of… Read More

“It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.” John 15:16. This is a verse that pained me ever so deeply as I waded through my daily battle with infertility. It weighed… Read More

Recently, as I entered a meeting with a few ladies, one of the women mentioned she had been discussing the virtue of joy with her husband and they had attempted to name all the truly joyful people they knew. Sadly, she explained that they were only able to identify three “Joy Junkies” of hundreds, if not thousands, of people they… Read More

My husband and I have been blessed beyond measure. It began back when we were new parents, watching every penny we spent to get by. Our budget was tighter than tight, with an infant and one income, no room for paid babysitters, pints of expensive ice cream, or name brands. We owned and lived in a two-family house. The rent… Read More

A few weeks ago, my husband and I were fortunate enough to go on Alaskan Cruise. His employer arranged and planned most aspects of the trip, with the trip’s goal to entertain customers and build relationships. In the weeks before we left for the trip, as we planned excursions and viewed our itinerary, my husband informed me that we would… Read More