vlog: coffee dates don’t lead to marriage…
I Kissed Dating Goodbye. Don’t date, just court. Wait until God brings you “the One.” Holding hands leads to sex. I’m a bit leery of blanket statements, how-to books, and generalities. What happens is we hear how one way of dating worked for this one...
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all we can say…
Christy has blond hair she’ll toss up in a ponytail while adjusting her microphone. She’ll comment about her favorite reality television show while cueing her music and grabbing some weights. She’ll put her hands on her hips, displaying her buff...
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100 words on discipline…
The rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother…. Discipline your son, and he will give you peace… Proverbs 29:15, 17 Speaking about discipline in public is uncouth, but my parents took spare the rod, spoil the child...
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ain’t your momma’s women’s ministry…
Women’s ministry comes a host of stigmas. Tea parties, luncheons, brunches, doilies, dresses, and all things pink. But I believe there’s a new type of girl who is not just looking for a place to sip tea and talk about how cute their children are....
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my inner patty stanger…
She looked frazzled, but intentional about her appearance. Her hair was straight and her lipstick was perfectly glossed as she sat at the table for two at Starbucks. Fiddled with her phone. Zipped and unzipped her purse. Checked the door every time a breeze jangled...
read morevlog: pop culture and christianity…
It ain’t a secret. I love me some pop culture. I know many shake their head in shame or beat their furrowed brow upon my liberties, but there is a deeper purpose and meaning behind my affinity for pop music, best-selling novels, and blockbuster movies. As a...
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memorials and monuments…
The assignment was to build memorial. Dr. Kim Russo passionately explained the difference between a monument and memorial through words only a tortured artist would identify with. Her lively hands and facial features were unusually lifeless and dull following the...
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silence…
Writing in retrospect and speaking in hindsight is easy because processing has already occurred. Everything is neatly placed into emotional containers and labeled alphabetically. Anger [here], Bitterness [here], Comfort [here]. But being in the moment and speaking...
read morethe list [revisited]…
The sun rises. The sun sets. The waves push. The waves pull. Life goes on and along a continuum uninterrupted unless something––stops. Today I stop. Almost a year ago I set out with a list. Unintended to be a list of resolutions, it was drafted in January...
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inspiration…
O Muses, O high genius, aid me now! O memory that engraved the things I saw, Here shall your worth be manifest to all! —Dante Alighieri, The Inferno The muses were beckoned by early Greeks to aid authors with prose, poem, or play in creating beauty; works of...
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I’m a writer and teacher in love with two men: Jesus and my husband, Matt. [You might not find this funny, but I laugh at myself, so it all balances out.]
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