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When Is It Okay to Question God?
If you have kids, you will relate to this conversation. Me: I need you to get dressed in something nice, and get in the car so we aren’t...
I Need Help - Ezra 8:21-22
November 30, 2020 Reading Ezra today and I love this book. It has been a long while since I read it and, like always, I am seeing new...
Ancient Men Wept - Ezra 3:12-13
Today's story is not about why (or why not) men should cry. I am a bit of a crier, and when I see a man cry it touches me in the hardest...
Proverbs 31 Woman - Part 2 - Here is Why You Can Do This
If you didn't read "Proverbs 31 Woman - Part 1", where I explain the process that brought me to even desire to be this woman in the first...
Who Likes to Compromise?
I remember the day the movers were at our house here and packing. They are kind of fun to watch - how they can wrap a coffee cup in 1.3...
Freely Submit to Your Government
I wonder how many people will see this title and delete without reading the story. If they do, they'll get the wrong impression of me. ...
God, Protect her from her Momma
Can we really mess up our kids like we think we can? Are we arrogant to believe that we can do, what God can't fix?
Why Don't We Do What We Love?
The last couple of days, I have received text after text from friends in Alaska. They are commenting on the article I wrote for the...
Lose Weight by Making Donuts?
Several years ago, I decided to learn how to make "old fashioned" homemade biscuits like my grandma's did. The thing is -- both of my...
Proverbs 31 Woman - Part 1-Do I Really Want to Be Her?
I can still remember the first time I read Proverbs, Chapter 31. I was in college, sitting in my apartment at Auburn University in...
Answered Prayers
When I was in high school, Garth Brooks put out the popular song "Unanswered Prayers" and at the time I loved the message because I felt...
Day #20: Tupelo, MS to Deatsville, AL
I couldn't hardly sleep last night because the kids had slept together, but they were all the way across the house from the room we slept...
Day #19: Springfield, MO to Tupelo, MS
I don't have any pictures. I know that I should but I got busy and so I just don't. We woke up in Springfield, Missouri, knowing that...
Day #18: Council Bluffs, IA to Springfield, MO
No one slept well last night. We all tossed and turned and woke up sleepy, but we got out pretty early. It had stormed last night and...
Day #17: Council Bluffs, IA to Council Bluffs, IA
We slept until 9:30 and woke up in a panic (well, Garrett and I anyway) thinking we had missed breakfast, but we didn't. About 11:30 we...
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