The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions—the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitessimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Did your life ever take a turn that you didn’t expect? Mine did! Unexpected life events may leave you feeling destroyed and in need of rebuilding. The good news? God is a builder! He’s our Creator and He builds nations and peoples but He’s also able to re-build you after a trying experience. Here are [...]
A few weeks ago, I submitted my “We Paid Cash” story to Crystal. I didn’t know if she’d run it or not so I was surprised when I saw MY mixer on her page while scrolling through my Facebook news feed. Woo hoo! How exciting. I LOVE Crystal. She’s been a huge encouragement to me [...]
One of my friends and I have been doing Bible studies together off and on for the past year. Recently, we asked 2 more friends to join us. I said that I sort of wanted a group like the Yada Yada Prayer Group–have you read those books? I want to be able to share real, [...]
I happen to have a thing for red. (Did you know that?) I was at Target a week or so ago and saw some cute red sandals. They were $20 and I thought about getting them but I don’t really need them. And it’s still cold around here–I can’t wear them for a couple months [...]
I had a discussion with someone about blogging and the question was asked, “What does it profit us?” I thought about that with this blog. Well, I’ve had some ads, some free products for reviews, some gifts (ok lots of gifts) given to me by you wonderful people. That was tangible profit. But I think [...]
If you’ve peeked at my Pinterest boards you may have seen that I happen to really like a certain football team…. Several weeks ago, before the game, I saw this clip on the pre-game show. Even if you don’t love football, please watch it for me–it’s back story for the rest of the post. [...]
Psalm 138:3 As soon as I pray, you answer me; you encourage me by giving me strength.
James and I went to see Courageous yesterday. Lee is working–I told him he MUST go see it. I like all of Sherwood’s movies but I’ll say this one is the best one yet. Really ALL of them are good, but they are figuring out the acting and have nicer cameras now and it really [...]
