Layers

Last Tuesday I spoke at our women’s ministry quarterly coffee house gathering.  I followed two well respected women who spoke with different perspectives on parenting. 
The first shared a message of parenting her children and the spiritual comparison of God parenting us.  The second shared her current views on being a child of God with the [...]

Living in Excess of Ease–A Suburbian Lifestyle

Our pastor is in the midst of a Jesus in Suburbia sermon series.  One particular point he made (amongst several very good points) was that we often live in excess of ease.  That our challenge is resisting this lifestyle while media and propaganda inundate us with accumulating more stuff.
Brett and I have been de-cluttering and [...]

Back Together Again?

Last night we had Owen over (along with everyone else from our bible study) and some how I think he and Lainee rekindled their love.  Apparently they played “wedding” and married.  I saw several kisses (on the mouth) and at one point they had climbed into MY bed.  One adult caught them in our bed [...]

Heart Break

Lainee (our 4 year old) has always believed that she is going to marry her friend Owen.  They’ve even been known to talk about their wedding in detail… i.e. church or out door wedding, rings, and how many kids they’ll have.  It’s truly amazing how much of a “wedding” they understand at this ripe YOUNG age [...]

The Vibrating Luggage

Part 2:
Now that we’re safely on board the ship and have finally been released from the crew’s dungeon of a holding place we move on upstairs toward our room.  At the 14th floor we stop and begin down the very very long hallway until we reach stateroom 322.  I notice a slight humming sound but [...]