There's something nostalgic about summer and remembering driving kids around to activity after activity: sandy, half-soggy, loud little kids, always hungry. Which reminded me of this post I wrote years ago after we traded in my minivan. I miss the van and I miss those days (sometimes): I remember pulling away from the dealership in the minivan fifteen years ago, turning around and looking wistfully at my dark green Jeep Cherokee we had traded in...yes, looking wistfully. I di

As part of my job over the past four years, I have read upwards of 100-150 church history biographies, books and articles about missionaries, pastors and various Christians who served the Lord in what we would call Big Ways. What started standing out to me was the parents of these church history figures. I'm a mom of three young adults and - leaving them out of this for privacy's sake - boy howdy, has being a parent been the biggest part of my sanctification. It's been a bles

If you attended church as a young kid as I did - in my smocked dress, uncomfortable shoes, long braids tickling my itchy neck- holding the hymnal tightly so I wouldn't drop it, not wanting to interrupt the very GOD of all things who was PRESENT in our midst, you probably know the hymn Come, Thou Fount. The second verse was my favorite because of the phrase, Here I raise my Ebenezer, which I related to George C Scott, my favorite Ebenezer of all time whom my brother and I woul

This is a little stream of consciousness post- you in? I like to keep AI guessing. Big news on the reading front: I added a bookcase to the collection. This will solve it all, right? I call it my library - my scattered shelves, overflowing with books I love, books I've halfway started then bookmarked with my short attention span and the ones waiting until I have the time. I saw a two bookshelf set with a ladder on Facebook marketplace the other day, but decided dreams of Bell