For to me to live is…

Our new pastor is preaching through Philippians. He said the first time he preached through Philippians it took him just a couple months. He’s been here over a month and we’ve covered the first twenty-one verses. It’s refreshing to have some old-fashioned verse-by-verse teaching. Give me that over a topical sermon any time! The topics…

Hard Things

“This country will not survive another generation of Christians that fit in.” Josh Harris said it. His little brothers are spreading the message. My husband picked up Do Hard Things at the library for me yesterday, and I’ve already read it cover to cover. Not that I’m biased towards homeschooling Oregonians, but those Harris brothers…

An eternal cup of tea

An eternal cup of tea

I’m so thankful that we’ll have an eternity in Heaven to fellowship with other believers. Our times together with other kindred spirits here on earth are altogether too short. We hadn’t even finished our mochas and teas on Saturday before Merritt and I were saying goodbye to Garret and Melinda. (In fact, Melinda’s tea was…

Bookshopping

Bookshopping

It was a feast for a booklover’s eyes. Row after row of bookshelves over ten feet tall, filled with old books. And not just old books–antiques, first editions, hardcovers. I could have spent a week there. But alas, Merritt and I had a plane to catch the next morning. And somehow it didn’t seem his…

Married Valentines

“Can you believe we’re married?” It’s a question my husband Merritt and I have asked each other often in the last almost two years. It seemed too good to be true. Best friends for so many years, finally being married to each other made our cup truly overflow. The other night, as we lay there…

No Exit

This morning’s sermon on divorce was the best I’ve ever heard. (Of course, it would not take all the fingers on one hand to number the sermons I have heard on divorce. Despite the fact that I’ve gone to church since the first Sunday of my life. And grew up during a time of skyrocketing…

As Happy as We

As Happy as We

written January 2007 Last Saturday, I watched as my cousin Brian slipped a ring on his new bride’s finger.The pictures in their slide show coordinated perfectly with the lyrics of the new Country song by Heartland, “I Loved Her First.”And as the vocalists sang Newsong’s “When God Made You,” we all rejoiced together with Brian…

The End.

The End.