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Have you ever found yourself in a new season of life? If your seasons are changing now, are you having a hard time finding your new balance? As we move from summer to fall, God is faithful to reveal a few things through the transition: Change is good Nature is changing her gown all around…

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…

I had the pleasure of hiking in the mountains of Colorado this past weekend. The weather was cool, the foliage was dense and green, there weren’t many bugs, and the environment was serene and peaceful. When my friend and I set off on the trail, our goal was to reach the top and view the…

During Old Testament days, Joshua was dividing the Promised Land amongst the twelve tribes. The tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, Joseph’s sons, felt that they should have more land than they had received to accommodate all of the people in their tribes. So Joshua agreed to extend their territory up into the mountain region. The…

I so rarely have the chance to enjoy a cool evening in August in Texas, so you can imagine how disappointed I was when an unexpected guest showed up. While visiting with a friend on the back deck the other week, a pesky mosquito kept buzzing around making a pest of itself. It didn’t take…

You know how it goes; you’re driving down the road, taking in the scenery when all of the sudden you hear the familiar, computer-generated command… Recalculating! Sometimes we can zone out and ignore the turn-by-turn directions we are receiving, other times we feel we know a better way to go. Either way, the result is…