They say I’m a Dreamer

Abbie at FiveDaysFiveWays is hosting a link up party featuring our hopes and dreams. Sarah at Fontenot Four is hosting a link-up featuring thankfulness, so I am going to combine the two! 🙂 My (realized) dream: To be married. December 29, 2001 My (realized) dream: To have children. My (realized) dream: go to Australia. Hold […]

A Story about Insecurity- So Long Insecurity

(warning: long blog post ahead!) This past semester, one of the small groups in our church did a study of Beth Moore’s book So Long Insecurity. I was able to participate and LOVED being in a women’s-only group. This book is so, so good for so many reasons. Honestly, I did not think I needed […]

The Four Rs

(This pic courtesy of a friend) This weekend, our church was blessed to be able to take a retreat together in the beautiful piney woods of East Texas. It was so, so good to get out of the city and just have time to learn more about one another and share a time of worship […]

12 Days of Christmas {Day Eight: Giving Back}

Today, I am excited to be drawing (later in the afternoon!) for the winner of Crystal Paine’s (aka Money Saving Mom) new book! You still have time to enter here! Since she is giving all of the profit from the book to Compassion International {awesome, awesome!}, I thought I would take the time to highlight a […]

12 Days of Christmas {Day Five:Scripture on Sunday}

Enjoy this beautifully-written post from Sarah.  I have so enjoyed doing this series with such a kind soul! Welcome back for Day Five of the Twelve Days of Christmas! Thanks, Kelli, for sharing Day Four yesterday! I recently began a “Sunday series” I call “Simply Scripture on a Sunday”. You can view past posts here […]

waiting, trusting, hoping

She sat in the waiting area of surgery, face in hands, shoulders visibly shaking. The elevator I was on “coincidentally” did not stop on the floor where my one-year-old son was in his hospital room with my husband, but instead went to this floor. The Holy Spirit said, “Go.” So I went, not really knowing […]

Yum