Transitions in Parenting: Filling and Emptying the Family Nest
After all of this...our nest is empty.Tom and I are empty nesters! That’s what they call us. It’s been 23 years. We’ve raised our 3, helped with my two nephews, countless animals, and a variety of children’s friends.
It’s been a wild, loud, dysfunctional, chaotic and glorious ride filled with transition! For us, it’s not a time to focus on what we have lost, but what we are re-discovering! It’s our time to be proud of our children, watching them grow, using skills and tools that we have helped them develop over their life, while we focus on the start to a new phase of a full life. It’s exciting!
Life With Kids: Filling the Nest
A while back I wrote about God’s faithfulness as my children headed back to school. At the time, I asked if anyone wanted to tell of God’s faithfulness with their family. My good friend Bonnie took me up on the request, sharing how God filled,...
How to Change Your Life with One Simple Thing
Holiness moves through the small things, the moments, simple and short. Added together, holy moments change lives and steer destinies God's direction. But it all comes down to choices and decisions made...one moment at at time. If I reach for holiness in the moment, what difference could it make?
A Little Fun with New Year’s Resolutions
Have you ever noticed how easy it can be to get a tad over zealous when it comes to all of the great things you want to accomplish on that magical date when the calendar turns from December to January? For a brief period of time, any thing seems possible. The sky is the limit...and then...
Worship Tips You Don’t Want to Miss
This is one of the things that I love about worship--there is always more. So much more! We can never learn it all, do it all, or figure it all out. We can never come to the end of God and we will never come to the end of worship. Worship that pleases God is a holy awe, bathed in grace, and entered into by gratitude.
10 More Practical Tips to Get the Most out of Your Worship
Worship is not a duty; it is a gift.
Attitude makes all the difference. Approach worship as a gift. If we truly realize the power and benefit of worship, we'd never stop! Today we continue on in our summary of Worship Tips. Writing day by day, I didn't realize how many different tips we covered in the Worship Challenge until I put them all together.
We Don’t Worship Alone
with practical tips, Scripture reflections, and encouragement to press into deeper intimacy with God in every moment.
Why You Should Sing in the New Year with a New Song
To sing a new song is to sing a song that is alive with the fresh vibrancy of today.
A new song because each moment is new and daily we have opportunity and privilege to worship God in our now. What is now is new; it is intimate and immediate.
It is real.
A new song rings with the testimony of what God has done in our lives. This past year we have experienced so many blessings--so much to sing about.