“Will you take me to the mall again before school starts?” Madi asked me yesterday as I was trying to dig out from under the rubble called my office. “AGAIN?!” I had taken Madi and Mariah to three different places to shop over the past two weeks. Madi, who wants to be fashionable and comfortable…
Life here can be so hard. Stuck in a messed up world with a heart that knows that we were meant for so much more. I truly don’t know how those who do not carry this hope deep inside get up each and every morning. Jesus in the book of John was constantly making his…
Last night, as Greg and I were watching a news program together, some new videos available to our kids were shown. I was SO disturbed by them. A mix of anger and sadness swirled together in my heart. Planned Parenthood has launched a new web site for teens that are VERY explicit. They cover a…
Many years ago, I moved my family to eating whole wheat bread. My children where small back then, but they could still express their opinion on the change! I would especially hear about it when they would come back from a friend’s house, “At their house, they have that soft, white bread! The kind that…
These were Jesus’ words after He had just fed the five thousand in John 6. He had done His work, given thanks for it, others had benefited and now it was time to finish it right. Verse 12 says, “When they had all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples, “Gather the pieces…
In John 6, verse 5 a crowd is following Jesus. They had just seen the miraculous signs he had performed on the sick; they probably needed more of the same.“When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming towards him, he said to Philip, “Where shall we buy bread for those people to eat?”…