by carrie | Jul 16, 2019 | God's in Charge, Growing Christlike
I gritted my teeth and held my tongue. I didn’t want to, you understand. I wanted to lash out at this man before me who was unleashing his anger upon me. I wanted to strike back in kind. I wanted to hurt him as he was hurting me. In that moment, I did something right....
by carrie | Jun 25, 2019 | Book Reviews, God's in Charge, Growing Christlike
I got married in the fall of 1996 with the traditional vows, a purposeful decision on my part. I wanted to say, “To have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love, honor, and cherish,...
by carrie | Apr 23, 2019 | God's in Charge
My kids are now twenty-one, twenty, and (two-weeks from) seventeen. All three are strong-willed in different ways, and we all experienced some tough years as we worked to mold them into God-fearing, high-functioning adults. As we’ve been in and around churches their...
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 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...
