Stephanie Ackerman of Homegrown Hospitality shares her gifts with us today!… Read More >>
This Christmas, I studied the Nativity and found myself in the characters:
I was the peasant girl on the fringe,
who wondered: Dare I enter?
I was the breathless shepherd,
brow beaded with sweat from running.
I was the sheep,
bleating in the presence of a newborn King.
I was Mary,
treasuring the moment, with birth pains … Read More >>
The other day, as I walked through Target, I began to notice an odor. I discreetly looked around to see where it was coming from but I couldn’t find the source of the odor. I continued shopping and the odor began to get stronger. It was very similar to that … Read More >>
Eight years ago, nursing a broken heart, I carried my bible and sad self across the sand of the beach up the block from my parent’s house. I plopped myself onto a towel, wrapped myself in a warm sweatshirt and read the Word Alive.
It was on that beach, in that sweatshirt, sitting on that towel that I first read these words:
“Silence is praise to you, Zion-dwelling God; And also obedience. You hear the prayer in it all.”
Psalm 65:1-2, The Message
I do not watch “daytime t.v.” on a regular basis but I have occasionally watched a show if there is going to be a topic addressed that I find interesting. I happened to see an advertisement about one particular show and decided that I would watch. The show featured 30, 40, … Read More >>
