How to Drive Your Teens Crazy in Four Easy Steps
[tweetthis twitter_handles="@GingHarrington" hidden_hashtags="#parentinghumor #parentingteens"]Good parenting involves the art of driving your teens crazy.[/tweetthis] Some parents have mastered the skills necessary to raising children well....
Will I Love my Neighbor?
The day is cold with a biting bitter wind. I pull my hat down over my ears and rush to keep up with my family. This is our first visit to New York city, and feeling out of place, I stop to look at the display in a store window. I admire...
Who is My Neighbor?
The meaning of the word neighbor is as broad as anyone and as specific as the person in need right in front of us. It cuts through our notions of self-importance and our facades of compassion. It rips the pretense of our religious postures, exposing the condition of the heart and the tendency to by-pass the needs of others.
How to Love God with Your Life
Questions come dressed in all kinds of reasons. Questions can muse and ponder, struggle and scrape, or probe and pierce. There are questions that hurt, desperate for a healing touch. Others yearn for a word of wisdom to strengthen a floundering...
Don’t Give Up: Pray with Perseverance
Some things don't come easy. And some prayers aren't answered quickly. She looks out the window as the rain comes down in sheets. Is God listening? she wonders as she struggles to believe God will answer. If she had a dollar for each prayer she has prayed for this difficult situation, she'd be a wealthy woman by now.
How Not to Clean Out a Closet
[tweetthis]Our house is clean enough to be healthy, and dirty enough to be happy.~Author Unknown[/tweetthis] You can get by with ignoring some household tasks for a time. Dishes? Not so much, but you can ignore the mess in the closet for years....
Follow God’s Lead for Balance and Harmony this Summer
Happy summer, friends! Life in this corner of the world has been a little of crazy and a lot of wonderful lately. We've just returned from our annual beach trip. Toes in the sand and sun warm on skin--ah yes, this is a great way to enjoy the...
Abscond with Joy: Following Jesus into Refreshment
Today I'm delighted to share the words of Lori Stanley Roeleveld! Imagine receiving a wonderful gift and leaving it unopened on a shelf day after day after day. Christians do that. Most of us don’t even realize we’ve done it because the world,...
I Give You Permission to Spend Time With Friends
Too often, I tell myself, I will plan time with a friend when I get my work done. Somehow, I feel guilty or lazy if I take time to hang out with a friend. How crazy is that?
Well, it's time for the guilt to stop.
