Archive for November, 2009
Changing the Status Quo
In: Guest Post| Ministries| church
30 Nov 2009Jesse, my wonderful, amazing, incredibly cute husband is posting today. Yay!
A few months ago I wrote a guest post about my hopes and past failures when it comes to loving my neighbor as myself. Since then, I’ve been thinking about my experience with youth ministry as a teen and what I’ve observed as an adult.
The [...]
A Few Announcements
In: Uncategorized
28 Nov 2009I thought I would take a break from normal blogging to update everyone on a few exciting things that are going on in my world and ask for a little bit of prayer. So, here’s what’s new:
I’m super excited to finally announce that I’m writing a book (yes, you read that correctly). An unbelieveable opportunity has [...]
Why I Tweet: The Thanksgiving Post
In: Uncategorized
25 Nov 2009Many people have asked me why in the world I use Twitter. I’ll be honest, I started using it simply to promote my blog. It has become so much more than that. In fact, it has become something that I have been very thankful for this year. Some of the connections that I have made [...]
Hannah’s Story: The Other Side of Adoption
In: Uncategorized
18 Nov 2009I posted this on the Real Life blog last week in celebration of National Adoption Month and thought I would repost it here in case you missed it. Thanks!
I was adopted when I was three months old. My first home was an orphanage in Vietnam, one of many orphanages that housed thousands of children born [...]
On Being the Church
In: christianity| church| faith
16 Nov 2009Most people my age can recall with absolute certainty where they were the morning of September 11, 2001. For my parents’ generation, almost everyone can give you the details of where they were when Kennedy was assassinated. Me? I can remember everything about the night of November 4, 1980, the night Ronald Reagan was elected [...]
Caption Please
In: Caption
12 Nov 2009My husband and I recently drove from Detroit to Atlanta to visit some friends. Somewhere just outside of Cincinnati we saw this church and giant Jesus statue. I have since learned that the locals refer to it as “Touchdown Jesus” and “Butter Jesus” because it looks as if it were carved out of butter. They [...]
Choosing My Story
In: Corinthians| Recovery| restoration
10 Nov 2009If you missed it, I had the honor of guest posting on my friend Adam’s (@jackalopekid) blog a little while ago. Here is the post that I shared.
We all have a story. I do, you do, my weird neighbor who shovels the snow off of his lawn does – we all have a story. I’m [...]
A Kaleidoscope
In: God| Grace| christian living
9 Nov 2009My daughter has a toy kaleidoscope that her grandparents bought for her. It’s nothing fancy, really, just a brightly colored cardboard tube with some cheap plastic beads inside. The same kind of beads I used to thread onto countless safety pins (remember those?). Anyway, I hadn’t seen a kaleidoscope in years and had forgotten how [...]
For My Love
In: Uncategorized
7 Nov 2009I’m up late writing, a task which has me focused on a lot of bad things that we have been through in the past (more on that in a later post). Anyway, everyone is asleep and it’s just me and my thoughts coming back to life on a blank page. I can already tell that [...]
A Holy Mess
In: parenting
3 Nov 2009Over the weekend we hosted a Halloween party for Jacob and Jessica’s classmates. As you can see, eating lots of sugary treats and making crafts that involve glue with first through fourth graders can lead to a lot of mess!
When I was a child, my mom hated mess. In our world everything had a place [...]
And the Winner Is…
In: Uncategorized
1 Nov 2009Thank you everyone for making grace week so special for myself and the thousands of readers who read these posts and comments. I really have enjoyed the conversation and will definitely be doing something similar soon!
The winners of the Serena Woods book are:
Lisa Wade
Linda Haffner
Please email me with your mailing info so I can get [...]
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