If you’ve read some of my past articles, you may recall what a revelation is was to me when the Holy Spirit forced me to camp out in a passage of Scripture way longer than I felt was necessary. It was as if I had a pace for reading that I felt was “acceptable”. But it turns out I miss a lot when I push that pace. It’s like in basketball. Some of the biggest upsets come when the underdog team takes control of the pace of the game. They are able to take down their opponent by either speeding up or slowing down the pace, pushing the stronger team…
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A Lesson In Persistence From The Squeaker Toy
We recently added a fifth member to our little family- a doggie! Lyla Mae is a cute little Yorkie mix who came to us from a local shelter. She was taken to the shelter as a stray, so we don’t know a lot about her, except what we’re learning along the way. She’s had some kind of training- potty training and a handful of commands. She’s not crazy about many treats, but loves some cheese and rawhides. One of her favorite household duties is helping pre-clean the dirty dishes as I put them in the dishwasher. And she does NOT like to be disturbed when she is snoozing, which is…
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A Tale of Two Weekends: Marriage In Two Extremes
My husband and I have spent a LOT of time together lately….and we haven’t tried to kill each other! Which is quite impressive, considering we’ve spent our time together two very different ways. Rewind almost two weeks, to Thursday afternoon, as I left work to go to my hair appointment. I had scheduled the appointment on that day because our five year anniversary was the next day, and I wanted to look snazzy! Since our anniversary falls so soon after Christmas, Brandon normally ends up doing a lot of the planning for it. I love him, and love celebrating our marriage; but my mind is kind of shot after the…
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Christmas Comfort Food
This year, my mother in law finally relented and let us all pitch in to help with Christmas dinner. She asked if I’d bring my all time favorite food- mac and cheese. I’m a Velveeta shells and cheese kind of girl, but I think I’m going to up my game this year. Going to go for the home made, baked variety. I’ll have to report back and let you know how it turns out! But then she asked me if there was any particular dish that just made Christmas complete. Nothing jumped to mind right away. So I started clicking through the mental list of foods that felt like Christmas,…
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A Sense of Belonging- Keeping Eternity In View
It wouldn’t take knowing me very long to know that I’m a huge University of Kentucky fan. I was born in Lexington, and I’ve got some couch-burning blue blood in my veins! Lately, I’ve had the good fortune to attend two UK athletic events- one basketball and one football. A few weeks ago, I got to see them play basketball against Mount St. Mary’s University. And yes, I was among the many fans in attendance Googling this college on our way into Rupp Arena to find out who the heck they are. Turns out it’s a private Catholic school in Maryland. Watching a game at Rupp is just magical. There…
