It’s another hot, sun-filled June day. I remember many just like today while growing up on a farm in Iowa. After getting my chores done I spent alot of time outdoors in our yard and ajoining timber. My imagination ran […]
Have you ever noticed that the more familiar you are with something the less you actually look at it? Think about editing your Christmas letter or a paper for work or school. Often you misspell the most common words […]
It was just a few words. A few words I needed to hear. I was traveling with my Dad (who is not what you would call “a talker”) to and from a doctors’s appointment. This appointment just happened to fall […]
We are mixed up. Who? All of us in America anyway. We put so much importance on the way people look, their title or the money they make but we don’t emphasize people with real character. We pay our athletes […]
Our Grand-daughter is thriving. These flowers are thriving. It’s been great weather. But what does a thriving marriage look like? What does it take […]
Last week I shared our perspective on marriage comparing it to being on the same team. Over the weekend we’ve been talking about that team needing to have the same goal. Every good team needs a coach with a vision. […]
My husband and I have been working on winding up the winter projects/season and shifting gears for the spring season. He is a small business owner which primary work comes from April to December so over the winter months we […]
In just the past week we (my husband and I) hit one of “those” moments. You know one that brings up all kinds of thoughts and feelings from the past in an instant. We were needing to leave so only […]
I’m not exactly sure where this thought came from. I know no one actually said this to me but somewhere along the line growing up I thought that the only “real” way to make an impact for Christ was to […]
Valentines day is over. Lots of people are saying “Great!” Others like me, take a deep sigh. It was a busy weekend. We helped with and attended a short marriage enrichment Friday night and Saturday morning led by our friends […]
