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One of most frequently used apps on my phone is my Maps app. I honestly don’t know how people found their way around before smart phones or GPS’s, especially directionally challenged people like me. Not to mention, the Maps app is great because it shows you the quickest way to go so that you can get to your destination more quickly.
Read MoreIsn’t it crazy how quickly life can change? It’s like one day you’re just going about your business and the next it seems like everything that once felt certain gets flipped on its head. A great relationship ends unexpectedly. A new opportunity falls in your lap. The chance to pursue a dream comes, but not without some sacrifices.
Read MoreI’m a firm believer that we can learn a lot of life lessons from being in the kitchen. And I’m not just talking about how to keep your eyes from burning when you’re chopping onions or making sure you let brownies cool before you try to cut into them (although I’ve learned both of those lessons the hard way). I think cooking can teach us a lot about how life works.
Read MoreOftentimes when we’re in a season of life that seems to go on for a while, we tend to lose sight of the beautiful parts of that season. Instead, we get bogged down and discouraged because this time doesn’t feel as special and exciting as it used to.
Read MoreIf there was ever an example of complete submission to God’s will, it’s the story of Mary that we read about in the gospel of Luke. Here was Mary, a teenager, engaged to be married, ready to start a new and exciting chapter in her life when an angel shows up and tells her she is going to be the mother of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world. Talk about an interruption.
Read MoreEarlier this year, I read a book called, “The Power of a Praying Wife” by Stormie Omartian*, and it quickly became one of the most practical and helpful books I’ve ever read. There are 31 chapters in this book, each covering a different area of your husband’s life that you can pray for. There’s a chapter about his work, his temptations, his emotions, his past, his fatherhood, his purpose, his faith, etc. And each chapter contains an actual prayer you can pray over your husband. Like I said, I highly recommend this book.
Read MoreWhat would it look like for us to be expectant for our lives to change as we walk into a new season? What would it look like for us to expect God to show up in a new way in the coming months? What would it look like for us to have the expectation that God is going to answer our prayers in the season ahead?
Read MoreAbout a year and a half ago, I felt like my world was being absolutely rocked. It seemed like everything was changing at once. Kevin and I were about to get married. We adopted a 10-week-old puppy. Kevin took a job at church in Northern Kentucky, which meant I’d be leaving Georgia, where I’d spent my entire life. I moved from my parents’ house to Kevin’s apartment to an apartment in Kentucky to a house in Kentucky all in the span of three months. It felt like nothing about my life was going to stay the same.
Read MoreI threw my computer back in my bag, grabbed my frappuccino, and booked it across campus to the foreign language office. Within 15 minutes I had the department head and three professors trying to calm me down. We talked for almost an hour before they put together an alternative plan. I could double major in Secondary Education and Spanish, but I would be in school for at least one extra year. Not to mention my scholarship would run out by the end of my fourth year so all tuition and fees would have to come out of my pocket. And I’d have to take a bunch of extra classes I didn’t need. It may have been a plan, but it wasn’t a good one.
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