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Book Review: Laugh Out Loud Pocket Doodles
It’s not typical, this book review. But it is summer. Rebekah and Caleb, my two youngest children, put their doodling skills to work, as well as their smiles, with today’s book review. What better tool to help keep the children in your life busy than with a book of jokes and doodles? Cute, convenient little…
I Don’t Feel Like I Belong
Ever feel as though you don’t fit? A new location or phase in life have your wondering where you belong? As a frequent mover who’s often geographically far from extended family, I have entertained these very questions. I don’t know anyone. I don’t know the routines, the traditions. Lord, I don’t fit anywhere. As one…
Iron Sharpening Friendships
Friendship. It’s truly a ministry in and of itself. As a frequent mover, often being transported across state lines, friendship has taken on a whole new meaning for me. When you’re new, those old friends who stay in touch online are a gold mine. But you don’t have to move in order to walk the…
Book Review: Untangled
Some say you shouldn’t get too personal in a book review. That’s likely sound advice. However, Untangled was so good, I can’t help but let the personal seep into this review. This book rocked. I couldn’t wait to finish it. Several good reads have crossed my path for reviews over the past year. This one…
Your Story: Lisa Appelo
This Christian woman knows what God’s faithfulness looks like. Her life is a first-hand experience in trusting God. She understands what it means to rest at the throne of God for everyday provisions, for the strength to carry on, for guidance in the midst of trial. Today’s encouraging guest post is written by the lovely…
Is Yours a Milk and Honey View? ~ Part 2
Welcome to part 2 of our continuing “milk and honey” saga. Part 1 can be found here. Have you put on any garments lately? There’s one in particular that covers our “buts” quite well and it directly correlates to our view. Stay with me. Read on. There’s more. Weeping. Grumbling. If only… Why? Our wives…
Dear Teacher, We Praise God for You
(The picture above was clicked by my son and possibly your student, Joel Woods, as we drove to school one foggy morning.) This post may contain affiliate links. They don’t seem sufficient. The words, they’re not enough, but this post tacked in the blogosphere comes with a heart of thankfulness, a heart of praise. Teacher,…
Is Yours a Milk and Honey View?
It might as well have been apples and oranges, black and white, or snowflakes and rain. Our views were quite different. Mine had the expanse of an Oklahoma sky, clad in medium blue, as it met the hills and trees on the horizon. The clouds, every single one of them, had rushed to another location,…
