Easter has always been one of my favorite celebrations. How could a girl not love a holiday that involved buying a new dress and shoes? In elementary school I got new Sunday socks too. They had ruffles. I carried this tradition onto my family. It wasn’t as much fun for my boys; they just saw Easter as painful because they had …
Bible Reading Plan: Does God Always Answer?
In the past 4 years, I’ve written almost 600 posts. Strolling through my archives, I found this one written in 2011. It seemed fitting for our 30 Day Prayer Challenge.(click to read) If you are having trouble praying expectantly and thankfully, maybe this will help…. I went treasure hunting in the dark today. (Reading my Bible before sunrise.) This is what I found: …
Bite of Bread Reading Plan: Don’t Run on Empty
I’m amazed. I can have a really great week–energetic, productive, joyful–then boom! In a day my emotions flip. The weather changes; clouds roll in. Loneliness comes to visit. And doubt decides to camp out on my front door step stealing the contentment I owned just a few days before. I call it “The Eeyore complex”. I experienced this yesterday. I’m not sure how …
Bite of Bread: Bible Reading Plan thru Romans 8
This is the first Monday in March. Love it. A new week, a new month, hope is in the air. Permission to start something new. How do you feel about Mondays or March? Mondays. Most of us hate them. Some of us like them. I like them because I don’t have to wait for New Years to come around once …