Note: This week, I will be sharing stories of my spiritual journey. Feel free to share yours in the comments or in an email. I would love to read them! Submission. Yes, it’s a heart stopping word. How did you just react when you read it? Submission is perhaps …
Note: This week, I will be sharing stories of my spiritual journey. Feel free to share yours in the comments or in an email. I would love to read them! God’s stories, like those of an expert novelist, have unexpected twists and turns in them. When we anticipate the perfect …
Note: This week, I will be sharing stories of my spiritual journey. Feel free to share yours in the comments or in an email. I would love to read them! Call it the curse of the firstborn. Or a blessing. It has been both. My parents always taught me to …
Note: This week, I will be sharing stories of my spiritual journey. Feel free to share yours in the comments or in an email. I would love to read them! I talk about my faith frequently on this blog. Well, it would seem that I do. But most of the …
I’ll never forget the first time my husband told our two-year-old firstborn the story of David and Goliath. We were (and are) very unsure of ourselves in parenting, and we were learning a lot of things right along with her. Knowing how much she could handle was not as intuitive …
Music has always been an important part of story. It sets the tone of the story’s mood. One of my children is so sensitive to music, that he will start crying in fear as soon as he hears the scary music in a story even before the scary characters are …
My earliest recollection of story is my little Fisher Price cassette player. Our home had plenty of books, but my desire for words was insatiable at a young age. My parents invested in a collection of books and cassettes and my little cassette player. They got the idea when a …
Stories. We love them—even when we act too grown up to care. Our mamas read them to us before we fell asleep at night, we heard them in Sunday School, we read them in school. And now that we have heard all those stories—we each have our own. …
My life has been very full. As you know, I haven’t posted here much lately. Yet, I remember last year’s 31 Days challenge, and I feel like I need to make space for it again. In case you don’t remember, 31 Days is the challenge thrown out by the …
In the early days after Jesus’ death, when His followers were first called “Christians”, it was meant as a derisive term. Today, being called a Christian identifies us with Christ. A person’s attitude towards the term largely suggests his attitude towards Christ. Today we have new labels. Since I choose a …
