My Days Well-Lived
I have two church bulletins from 2019 tucked in the back of my daytimer. These bulletins are filled with handwritten notes. The sermons spoke to me then, and continue to speak to me to this day, and I occasionally pull them out to review the lessons. The interesting thing about these two sermons, which were […]
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I caught myself sending up a prayer yesterday, “God….” I say “caught” because when I heard my voice, after that one word, I stopped. Seriously? Was I going to talk to God that way? I thought about that prayer the rest of the day. Mind you, there is nothing wrong with addressing God by using […]
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I am an Old Testament girl. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to live under the law! I’m all about God’s amazing grace, but oh, how I love that older book. I can get lost in the stories (and drama) in the lives of those men and women. I identify with Moses, and his […]
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So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks, or the church of God — even as I try to please everybody in every way. For I am not seeking my own good but the good of […]
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I’ve been meeting with a group of women from my church over the past several months as part of a Women’s Leadership Team. What does the woman of 2016 want? What does she need? What are we leading women to? What are we leading women in? Those are the questions we have been pondering. And can we, […]
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We are now in the early stages of planning our 7th local Feed My Starving Children MobilePack, Meals From Michiana. I became the coordinator for this event in our Northern Indiana community 2 years ago. The MobilePack manual provided by FMSC has been my constant companion as I organize and plan. Everything that needs to […]
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Did you know over two million children die every single year from starvation? 2,000,000! That’s a really big number. I’m not even sure I can “see” that number, can you? What does 2,000,000 look like? We could fill the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis every 11 days with children — who are doomed to die […]
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If you’re just joining me, I hope you take the time to read the previous post where I expressed my struggle to find joy in my Christian walk. I think I left you with something like, “Being a Christian isn’t joyful, it’s hard work”. You can read it here. God did indeed have my attention. He knows that […]
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Hey there! Do you ever just feel kind of bogged down in the nitty-gritty of life? Just trying to make it through the day? Even as you’re checking things off on your to-do list, does it still feel like drudgery instead of accomplishment. Is there any joy in all that doing? I’ve been thinking a lot […]
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“Connie, what have you been up to? Your face is radiant like Moses!” That is how my Pastor greeted me on Sunday morning. I thought it was a fitting choice of words, using a tongue-tied character to describe me. Moses! I attended my very first women’s conference 41 years ago when I was 18 years old. […]
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We just celebrated 41 years of marriage. That’s a very long time. We married young, too young really, but somehow we’ve made it work. Thinking about this, I jotted down a few reasons why I think we’ve made it 41 years… in no particular order, and with tongue in cheek for a few …. We […]
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As I look out over my backyard on this dreary, rainy spring day, I see several gardens that need attention. I wish it was 20 degrees warmer and sunny today. This is the only time of the year that I get an “itch” to work in the garden. I love the cooler spring days and the […]
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My little 11 month old grandson is a beautiful baby, no bias on my part (smile). He is a mild-mannered, easy-going child. The kind of baby you can love on, and rocky-bye, and snuggle with, and then just toss into bed — and he goes to sleep. That kind of baby. The modern, child-rearing books […]
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A new chapter has begun. Not sure how I feel about it yet. Well, that’s not true. Yes, I do. My feelings are raw — like a fresh wound. I don’t like it at all. I want to turn back the clock. I don’t want to go down this road. I knew this day […]
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