Do you ever doubt when you pray a big prayer?I do.We've added a prayer request section to our thankful journals. So during the past six weeks, we've prayed together. Sometimes the prayers are personal, other times we pray for others. (I wrote about our thankful journals in another post weeks ago.)My eight-year-old daughter Hannah's prayer remained Continue Reading

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. Mark TwainCourage is going from failure to failure without losing ethusiasm. Winston Churchill Continue Reading

This weekend at church the message was about injustice and suffering and how we can find hope in the midst of them. Something the pastor said stuck with me.He said, "Regardless of......, we offer up our praise."It's extremely difficult to praise God when we are suffering or when injustice strikes. Yet there is nothing more sacrificial and beautiful Continue Reading

My dear friend, Melisa, and her husband are going through the long extensive process of adoption. Training classes, calls to interview agencies, piles of paperwork, internet research, blood work. The list goes on. Throughout the process, they've received a couple calls about a possible child available, only to be let down when they found out they Continue Reading

My favorite devotional book is Streams in the Desert. There is not a day's devotion I can't relate to. If you don't have one, it's worth finding on eBay or at a bookstore and buying it. :)Last month, one particular day's reading stuck out to me. Here's a part of it.God wins His greatest victories through apparent defeats. Very often the enemy seems Continue Reading

Okay once again I'm venting. I know this news is weeks old, but frankly I'm still stewing about the principle of the matter.James Frey wrote a memoir called "A Million Little Pieces." His book landed him a spot on Oprah, and also a label as part of Oprah's book club. His memoir is about his drug addiction and criminal activity, ending with his Continue Reading