“The LORD your God will then make you successful in everything you do. He will give you many children and numerous livestock, and He will cause your fields to produce abundant harvests, for the LORD will again delight in being good to you as he was to your ancestors.”  Deuteronomy 30:9   Today’s blog is […]

This blog is dedicated to all moms everywhere, whether you have children, have pets who are like your children, or serve in some other nurturing role. This Mother’s Day, I want to invite you to remember to care for yourself as well. I remember my first Mother’s Day without my mom. I decided that instead […]

Hmmm, come to think of it…I really wish happy thoughts flooded my mind as free flowing as they seem to do for many people with whom I am close. My husband is one of these naturally “happy people,” as are a couple of my closest friends. By the way, I think God sort of set […]

You know the phrase and the desire, an almost desperate yearning to be “happy go lucky”. What does this even mean? To me, it is a wish to be lucky so much that every thing is basically a fairy tale. We yearn for utopia. Entire cities have been built trying to attain it. Fairhope, AL […]

“Hoppy Easter!”  my silly husband keeps saying.    I’d say that describes Easter quite well. Jesus hopped right up out of that grave and defeated hell, sickness and poverty! He hopped right over every obstacle we will ever face so that now by using His name we can overcome, no matter what we come up […]

But they gossiped about me!  This is impossible to overcome.  She betrayed me!  What could possibly happen next?  He hurt me!  They are so judgmental & heartless.  No one gets how hard this is.  Who even cares?  When is it going to ever get easier?   Have you ever felt any of those ways? Of […]

In 1700, English pranksters popularized April Fools’ Day by playing practical jokes. Though it is a holiday that has been celebrated by different cultures for centuries, the exact origin is a mystery. Some say it dates back to 1582, when the Julian calendar was switched to the Gregorian calendar, and as people were slower to […]

There are two scriptures that I’ve heard all my life and have somehow not really ever put together, even though they are back to back. I’ve graduated from three Bible schools, lived on the mission field for five years, and been a pastor’s wife for some time now. I guess I just never put two […]

March 20th is a day the whole world celebrates happiness, so as you would guess, it’s one of my favorite days of the year! Let’s celebrate Wednesday and every day that “God is the source of our happy.” 4 Then I will go to your altar, O God; you are the source of my happiness. I […]

Recently, I took a trip to Boston with my husband to meet some friends for vacation. As we were checking our bags, I realized mine was over the limit. I started taking stuff out of my suitcase and trying to place it into my husband’s so that all our luggage could be checked within the […]