That's What Friends Are For

Warning: This is really honest!  When I started writing this post, earlier this morning, it was entitled, “Why I’m So Depressed.”  Now, perhaps I wouldn’t have really posted something by that title, but that just clues you into my frame of mind at the time.  I was down.  Really down. It’s just been one of […]

Pride & Shame

Right now I’m reading John Piper’s book, Battling Unbelief.  He once again hits a home-run.  It’s an abbreviated version of his longer work, Future Grace, and since as a mommy my time to read is limited, I read this shorter version while I walk on the treadmill :-).  The book has categories of things that […]

Loving Rebecca

Loving Rebecca This I command you, that you love one another. John 15:17 The look is hard to describe.  It’s such a combination of expressions I’ve seen before, in movies or on the faces of people in the street.  At times you’d think she was trying to discern whether you were telling the truth, or […]

When God Broke My Heart

I made my way to the corner table where Pastor John had asked me to meet with him. Jeff Patterson was sitting there as well, clicking the screen on his PDA with his stylus. He didn’t look up as I approached the table and sat down. John looked excited and leaned forward as if to […]

The Love Nest

Starting Out The Love Nest “You booked our honeymoon in a place called ‘The Love Nest?!’” Jeff just grinned back at me, anticipation sparkling in his blue eyes. I couldn’t believe it as I spun around to see the computer screen. We sat at our respective desks in the church office, both working as college […]