Books…They’re Good for the Soul {31 Days}

Sometimes a book sticks with you your whole life. By the time I was a teenager I had read nearly all of Janette Oke’s Christian fiction novels. Over and over again. And my mom got me into it with one book. Once Upon a Summer. It’s about a boy named Josh who is incredibly ordinary. […]

God’s Living Word {31 Days}

“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when […]

Working Long Summer Days Away {31 Days}

It’s strange how things you despised as a child you miss as an adult. Growing up on a farm was no picnic. We moved from Florida to Kansas when I was 8 years old. We’d only been on the farm a year when my dad started investing in livestock. My brother Dave and I went […]

Stories that Changed Me {31 Days}

Who remembers the good old days of cassette tapes? We had a tall black upright piano in our living room with a stereo on top of it. Its two speakers sat down on the floor beside the piano. My brother Dave and I used to lie on our stomachs and listen to stories playing on […]

God’s Word at Work {31 Days}

Sundays were simple in my growing up years. We lived near my mom’s parents, who until I was a teenager myself still had children living at home. Our family lived in Florida and we hosted church gatherings on Sundays. My grandparents, aunts and uncles, and a handful of others would come and we would worship […]

The Magic of Stories {31 Days}

Day 2. Nothing thrilled my little girl self more than Disney’s Cinderella. Our family would borrow a VCR and the VHS tape from my dad’s co-worker and I’d stick that movie in day after day. Sometimes, toward the end of the movie, just after the Duke slipped the slipper on Cinderella’s foot, I’d quickly rewind […]

31 Stories in 31 Days

I’ve been a recreational blogger for 7 years now, blogging first at Stories of our Lives and then Strength in Weakness. Recently God opened the door for me to begin blogging more consistently and pursue my heart for writing. I’m so excited to launch this new website and I may be a little crazy, but […]