Hello from the Other Side of the Calendar
(A little tribute to Adele and the never ending melody replaying inside my head as of late!) Maybe, like me, you find yourself on the other side of the calendar year way too quick, long before you finished wrapping up the year, or even wrapping all of the Christmas...
Could This (Finally) Be Our Year? ~ Christin Ditchfield
Years ago I ran across a poignant cartoon by artist Cathy Guisewite. In the first panel, a woman held up a sparkly ring. The caption read, TO DO: 1955. There was only one thing on the woman’s list: “Marry well.” In the second panel, her hand had become a fist. The...
Consilium Podcast, Episode 6, Crystal Evans Hurst
Today, we talk about finding balance, and the journey of making our way through working in ministry, caring for family and serving the Lord responsibly.
The Cost of Motherhood
“Making the decision to have a child . . . is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ” Elizabeth Stone To become a mother is to risk heartbreak. Or, rather, to guarantee it. Sure, there are also joys so intense you feel like...
ROCKABYE BABY
My two-year-old daughter was missing. I’d been sitting in a lawn chair under the Georgia pines that summer morning while I watched her play in the driveway and must have dozed off again. I ran around the yard and through the house and back outside calling for her—not...
From Isolation to Community
There have been a couple of times in my life when I have learned and then re-learned the importance of leaning on the Lord. Most recently, I was reminded of this during the last year. For those of you who know me well, you know that about a year and a half ago, my...
A Post-It Note Kind Of Life
Giving birth seemed to have unraveled half of my brain, now menopause is going to finish it off!
What Difference Can One Woman Make?
On September 21, 1911, a daughter was born in a small Missouri town, and her parents named her Beulah, “Favored and blessed of the Lord.” Would she be favored and blessed of the Lord? By the time Beulah Cox Moore was six years old she walked hand in hand with her...
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