50 is the new 30! 60 is the new 40! Seriously people; who comes up with this stuff? There is nothing about 60 that’s the same as 40 except your DNA. I don’t want to burst anyone’s bubble, but any 60-year-old who tells you that it’s just like being 40 is most likely in the…
Encouraging Single Moms
In May I had the opportunity to help at a retreat for single moms. These moms come from every walk of life and are single for a wide variety of reasons. Some are rich, some are poor; some are divorced, or widowed, or never married at all. Some have white-collar jobs, some blue-collar jobs, and…
Eating Out – Missionary Style
If you’ve been reading my blog for a while you know I’ve been on several mission trips. The standard on a mission trip in regards to food is that if someone you are staying with, or the group you are ministering to, serves it, you eat it. If it appears that it might make you…
Doing the Un-Fun Stuff
It’s been almost a year-and-a-half now since I visited my girlfriend in Tennessee. She had lost her husband to cancer about five months before our visit and my husband, John, had just been diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma. I remember a point in our conversation when she looked at me and said, “If the doctor ever…
I Deserve Better! Or Do I?
Last Wednesday I flew to California to visit my parents. I was flying on an airline I don’t normally use and thus have no frequent flyer status or even an airline credit card that would allow me to be one of the first four dozen people onto the plane rather than one of the last four. I pondered…