EVERY MOMent COUNTS!
Something feels a little uncomfortable about Easter to me. For starters, it’s not about a sweet, soft, cuddly newborn baby, like Christmas. Babies are likeable. Our hearts are pulled to them, to their innocence, and to their need of our care. The Christmas story is easy to love with the happy, healthy birth, the visitation [...]
Doing FamilyLife Today radio with Dennis Rainey, Bob Lepine and Barbara Rainey to discuss Easter activities and ideas was big fun for me! A little intimidating, but not really, because I know them as Dennis, Bob and Barbara and they really are great fun and always interesting to talk to – whether in a studio [...]
This past summer, something amazing happened when our extended family traveled to my old stomping grounds in Washington, D.C., to take a tourist tour of the White House. I used to work on Capitol Hill, and had friends who worked in the White House, so I had been there several times. But I was thrilled [...]
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, we are all wondering what our men have planned for us. While I will admit that something sparkly does make me smile once in a while, most of us have tried to emphasize to our men that its NOT the size or the expense of the gift that [...]
This might be a bit unusual but I’m really looking forward to Lent this year. It’s unusual and even odd because even though it’s an event on the calendar, most of us who are not Catholic don’t know what it’s about. There are far more questions than answers about this ‘holiday’ which isn’t even the correct term. [...]
Now that you’re a parent, do you ever think that New Year’s Eve should be more “exciting,” somehow? I recently realized I’ve had this subconscious vision in my mind that was clashing with reality – and keeping me from fully enjoying the amazing truth of what is right in front of me. See, when I [...]
Christmas is about Jesus. The Son, the only Son of God. The Word in the beginning. Creator of all things. The Lamb, the image of the invisible God. In Him all the fullness of deity dwells. In Him all things hold together. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. In all things made like [...]
Three years ago Grandma left this life at the age of 95. Some days I still feel the loss deeply, but I still have her gifts. When I was 2, she gave me a teddy bear for Christmas. I named him Brownie, and I still have him tucked away safely. He was well-loved through all [...]
Twas the month of Christmas and all through the city People were crazy and not acting pretty. The traffic was clogged, the stores were all packed. The lines were so long and my list was quite stacked. Exploding … to be exact. My mind was all fuzzy, my feet really ached. But forward I marched [...]
It needs to be said. For a mzungu (a foreigner), Christmas on the Equator is a little … weird. You’ve got the sun shining away at a pleasant 80 or so degrees, my mango tree is finishing up its dazzling season, and my avocado tree is about to get started. But to be honest, it’s [...]
