Joy, in words and pictures
This post will be most complete if you add your own favorites ~ Inspiring quotes or favorite scriptures that esteem joy. Please share your voice in comments. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth. ~ 3 John 1:4 ...
Choosing joy, dying well and crying with hope
. Knowing this keeps her present in my mind and prayerful in my heart. For as long as I can remember, my husband and I have played this little game; well, less a game and more a practice: Whenever anything happened to someone we know–and...
Where were you when the world stopped turning…?
Just like I remember what I was doing when ~ the assassination attempt was made on President Reagan's life (my 18th birthday, I was at the mall when I heard about it from a Belk's employee)… The Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated over the...
Drought, Flood and the Big, Bad Wolf
It started Christmas Day 2010 and it's been going on for nine months now–this is the craziest weather year I ever remember. In Chattanooga: We had our first ever White Christmas. Multiple super cell tornados in April crushed a path of...
Seven Days in Utopia: Top Five Reasons To See It
It's farewell to Summer, permission for banks and the post office to close, the last day Southern women can legally wear white pants and shoes, and a celebration of the working class– Labor Day, ironically a day many do anything but labor. It's also a...
Why I miss being pregnant: expectancy, grace and the first incredible dance of life
Expectant.… Isn’t that the loveliest word to describe a pregnant woman? Is there any more eager anticipation than meeting your baby face to face, holding her in your arms, nursing him from your own body? And the gift divine– that singular joy of feeling...
Practical suggestions for having or being a mentor
A companion piece to the benefits of having a mentor, . I hope you'll read if you have tweens and/or teens. A mentor's investment in your child's life can change both for good, forever. 🙂 Three Important Considerations for Establishing a...
Blame it on the reign…
It is raining. There has never been a dryer month in Chattanooga than August 2011, and yet it pours. Growl and hiss, snarl and bite, it’s raining cats and dogs, the dangerous kind. Black lips curl over porcelain daggers, ready to sink in to flesh, to spill...