I'm slipping away to my mom's for a couple of days with Olivia.  I will add the Battlefield of the Mind lesson for this week on Sunday afternoon. I love you all and I will miss you!  Summer is slipping through our fingers, though, so we're trying to do a few little...

  As I was gathering photos from our trip last April to send to my cousin Tanner so that he could work on the poster for the Faith's Journey Project, I was struck with the reality of how much I had forgotten about the great need for hope and love in India.  With every...

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. I've found myself having one of those mornings where I could have written a lot of irrational thoughts. Hurting kids can...

This is pretty much how my memory of sitting in a Carol Kent event on Thursday is in my mind...very blurry.  Somehow we had seats at the table right next to hers!  I couldn't believe it! I had been looking forward to this day for months and months..ever since I heard...

The title of this chapter is "Be Positive," and Joyce dives right in with the statement that "positive minds produce positive lives and negative minds produce negative lives." As I lay here in bed with bronchitis (I made myself go to the doctor this morning), I am...

We've been out of town for a few days and I intended to write from Indianapolis, but sadly we did not have Internet. We are home, but I am now recovering from the worst summer cold I have had in a long, long time. I just wanted to check in and let you know that the...

It's hard to believe that 23 years ago today I was expecting my first child and was working as a legal secretary in downtown Cincinnati.  I had to leave work early because I wasn't feeling well..........and four hours later, I was holding little Erich!!!  Little did I...

Do you ever feel like you're one day late in saying or doing just about everything?!?!?  I sure do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As I was thinking of all of you this morning, I was hoping your Fourth of July was wonderful and full of some sort of special memories!  We spent ours...

Deuteronomy 7:22 The LORD your God will drive out those nations before you, little by little. I really love this chapter in Joyce Meyer's book, because it reminds me that God doesn't always do things quickly or "all at once." In a world where microwaves are found in...

I couldn't believe it when I looked up and saw this road sign while driving through Columbus on Monday afternoon. My husband and I were in Ohio for the Mike Furrey Foundation Dinner, and I found myself driving through the part of Columbus where we had spent many, many...