Finding God’s will for your life

My oldest son is in a Sunday School class for young adults, and he says quite often guest teachers who come will speak on the topic of finding God’s will for your life. That age group is in the midst of or on the brink of making major life decisions, so it makes sense that [...]

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Microfiction Monday #13 and two things I forgot to tell you about

Welcome to Microfiction Monday, where a picture only paints 140 characters. Susan at Stony River has begun a Microfiction Monday wherein participants write a story in 140 characters based on a particular image that Susan has chosen for the day.  Design 215’s Character Counter helps keep track of the number of characters. It’s a fun [...]

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Rest

Rest, The Lord is near. Refuse to fear. Enjoy His love. Trust His mighty power Fills every hour Of all your days. There is no need For needless worry. With such a Savior, You have no cause To ever doubt. His perfect Word Still reassures In every trial. Rest, The Lord is there. Lift up [...]

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Laudable Linkage and a Question

Some interesting and edifying things seen round the Web lately: The basis of Project 1189 is a plan to read all 1,189 chapters of the Bible within a two year period, not, as is said here, to “[conquer] the Word, merely circumnavigating the biblical globe so we can say, ‘I’ve done it!’” but rather “to [...]

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Friday’s Fave Five

Susanne at Living to Tell the Story hosts a “Friday Fave Five” in which we share our five favorite things from the past week. Click on the button to read more of the details, and you can visit Susanne to see the list of others’ favorites or to join in. 1. French green beans. I [...]

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Booking Through Thursday: Gifts

The Booking Through Thursday question for this week is one I submitted (thanks for using it!): What books did you get for Christmas (or whichever holiday you may have celebrated last month)? Do you usually ask for books on gift-giving occasions or do you prefer to buy them yourself? To answer the last question first, [...]

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First random dozen of 2010

Linda at 2nd cup of coffee created and hosts the Random Dozen meme every Wednesday. 1. On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being a cranky-baby-hissy-fitter, how much of a complainer are you? One of my sons used say, “Complaining is a sin” any time anyone so much as said, “It sure is cold.” I [...]

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Book Reviews: Shades of Blue and Fit to Be Tied

Shades of Blue by Karen Kingsbury is the story of a young dating couple who made a series of bad choices and then went separate ways, but they find the consequences of those choices are still haunting them years later. The man, Brad, believes he has moved on with his life until an ad campaign [...]

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Book challenges

I’ve been a little reluctant to join any book challenges because I have so many books to be read on my shelf, and many more on a list. But these two are calling to me. The folks at 5 Minutes For Books have revamped their Classics Bookclub: instead of choosing one classic for everyone to [...]

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Back to the ol’ routine…

…at least, that’s what I thought today would be. Everyone is back at work or school, and I have plenty of things to do, but nothing pressing. So I was going to compute for a while and then dig into some project or another. I had several threads of ideas for blog posts, but nothing [...]

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