The red cups at Starbucks mark the beginning of the holiday season in my mind. Today, I stopped on the way home from running errands at the local drive through Starbucks. I was delighted to find advertisement on the menu for the traditional holiday flair. I gave into the marketing and ordered a holiday drink. [...]
Hope
I recently purchased a decorative plaque to hang on the wall that has a version Romans 5:3-5 on it. The theme is Hope. The plaque says: Rejoice in our suffering,Because suffering produces perseverancePerseverance-CharacterCharacter-HOPE After hanging it on the wall, I realized it is an incomplete thought- it is missing “and hope does not disappointed us.” [...]
Submission and Self-Sufficency
I’ve recently found myself with extra time for reading, and feeling drawn to works by Elisabeth Elliot. Most specifically I am reading Let Me Be A Woman which is a collection of 49 letters that Elliot wrote to her daughter when she was engaged and preparing to marry. I had no idea that’s what it [...]
This Song Warms My Heart
David Mead- “Nashville” On a childhood highway through a night alone I was barely breathing, I was crawling home Well it’s not quite London or the south of France Or an Asian island or a second chance Going back to Nashville, thinking about the whole thing Guess you gotta run sometimes Maybe I’m a fast [...]





