Month: October 2025

The holidays are right around the corner! While chatting with a friend the other day, I began to realize just how stressful spending time with family can really be for so many people. Some families see each other often and experience life together from season to season. Other families, like hers, only gather once a…

I begin each morning with a hot cup of coffee. I love sipping on my favorite mixture of coffee beans and flavored creamer, breathing in the lovely aroma of a coffee house while still relaxing in my jammies. I don’t sip it from an insulated, travel cup either. No way! I like to drink from…

My hand hurts. I’ve been knocking on this closed door for far too long. I know God chooses which doors to open and which to close, but I really liked what was behind this door. I enjoyed it. I miss it. But the door has closed, yet I can’t stop wondering why. Ever been there?…

I recently read the story of a woman and her daughter who were in a rather traumatic car accident. The daughter was asleep in the passenger side which, as it turns out, is what saved her from greater injury. The emergency responders on the scene told the mother that had her daughter saw the car…

There are large holes in the walls. Doors are being knocked out.  Flooring is being removed. It is demolition time in our new house project. The house has great “bones”, it just needs to function a little differently then it does right now. It has bared witness to young families, a ton of firsts and…