by carrie | Feb 12, 2019 | Holidays
About four weeks before Christmas this past year, my husband looks at me and says, “You need to add more items to your wishlist.” “What do you mean?” I said. “I have several items on there.” “No, you have books and puzzles on...
by carrie | Jan 29, 2019 | God's in Charge, Growing Christlike, Pain and Trauma, Shadow of Death
Let me be honest. I don’t like pain. At all. And I tend to avoid its possibility if I can. You? I don’t climb on roofs if I can help it. Why? Well, not because I’m afraid of heights, although they can make me a bit nervous. Actually, I’m afraid of...
by carrie | Jan 22, 2019 | God's in Charge
If you’ve read me for very long then you know that every once in a while I tackle a pithy of common saying from our daily lives. Last year, I wrote about follow your passion, bloom where you are planted, respect is earned, love is action, and home is where the...
by carrie | Jan 8, 2019 | Book Reviews, Growing Christlike
Sometimes, we all want a fresh start. During this second week of the new year, I’m offering something that may help you clean out last year’s bad habits and begin new habits. Good habits. Godly habits. Last week, Jocelyn Green’s book, Free to Lean,...
by carrie | Jan 1, 2019 | God's in Charge, Guests
This is a repost from last January, but the more I declutter my life, the more I believe its critical message. I want to do everything God calls me to do, which means that sometimes I must make some hard choices on what not to do. It means taking a sober look at my...
by carrie | Dec 18, 2018 | Holidays
NOTE: I will NOT have a post next week for Christmas! Enjoy your holidays, and I’ll see you back here on January 1st. Are you ready for Jolabokaflod? That’s really not a made up word, and you won’t find it in a Dr. Seuss book. If it helps, the word...
