Like Jewelry? Like to Shop? Like to Help? Like to Pray?

ViBella Jewelry Is Much, Much Prettier Than My Prayer Beads. Haiti on my Heart I know a little girl (okay, I know her mom) who has decided to raise $5,000 to build a playground at a school in Haiti. She’s Lydia Lee, the daughter of Jennifer Lee, who blogs at Getting Down With Jesus. (Jennifer is […]


Dear God: Why?

Our Sponsored Child, Samuel. He’s Almost Twelve Years Old. Rwanda.  Dear God,Please help me to understand about hungry children. Yes, I know this world You created for us is broken. We broke it. I get that. And I know that You are the God of justice as surely as You are the God of mercy.  But it’s […]


The Day my Tongue Caught Fire

Just Don’t. An Answered PrayerMy tongue can be much sharper than I want it to be. Sometimes at work I’m so focused on the goal that I forget that real people are working to accomplish that goal. Sometimes my speech doesn’t take into account their needs or feelings. It’s worse at home. My sweet, loving, devoted […]


Are You Asking For It?

Skillet and Stockpot Speak up! I am not, by nature, acquisitive. So I was startled to realize that I was lusting after a new set of cookware. It just wasn’t me. But sure enough, each day I’d pull up the images of the pots and pans on the Macy’s website. I’d check the price. I’d […]


Are You Asking For It?

Skillet and Stockpot Speak up! I am not, by nature, acquisitive. So I was startled to realize that I was lusting after a new set of cookware. It just wasn’t me. But sure enough, each day I’d pull up the images of the pots and pans on the Macy’s website. I’d check the price. I’d […]