When God moves in a small town

September 20, 2012 — 8 Comments

In my little town of Kountze, Texas, God is moving big time!! I cannot tell you how excited we are! If you haven’t already heard about it, our local high school cheerleaders chose to create the signs that the football team runs through with Scriptures on them.

Please note that they did not do this under a teacher’s supervision, it was the students choice. They did not do this with school supplies or on school time. This was done at one of their houses and was done with their own supplies. Continue Reading…

Never Forget…

September 11, 2012 — 6 Comments

When 9/11/2001 rolled around, our country was shaken by a devastating sequence of events. We stayed glued to the television, soaking in every bit of information we could find. We read the newspaper like never before. We were devastated and at a loss for words. We were angry  and shouted it from the roof tops. When our president declared war, most of the nation rejoiced because we wanted to pay them back for what they had done to us. We flooded the churches, hungry for answers. Continue Reading…

We live in a culture that is saturated with sex and desire; where the billboard around the corner from my child’s school has a picture of a half dressed woman on it selling who knows what that has nothing to do with her being half dressed; where our children are reading magazines and watching TV shows that favor super skinny girls and beefed up guys.

We are inundated with images that tell us we need to be skinnier, prettier, sexier, and so forth.

TO READ MORE, head over to Kristine Remixed where I am guest posting today!

Emily P. Freeman, the author of “Grace for the Good Girl”, knows exactly what it’s like to be a good girl. In this preface, “the hiding”, Emily begins to tell us her story and why she wrote this book. She knows what it’s like to live behind the masks that good girls create. She knows that when you are a good girl, you can become so clever at hiding that you fool everyone around, even yourself. There are some lines in this first section that I want to talk about: Continue Reading…

Grace for the Good Girl

August 23, 2012 — 2 Comments

Oh my but it’s been a while since I’ve written and it’s been a while since I’ve done a Bible study of sorts. Quite a while back a friend of mine suggested that I would love this book, “Grace for the Good Girl”. You see, she could tell from my comment to her post that day that I was a good girl and I was desperately searching for grace. Now, you may be asking why a good girl needs grace. It’s a legitimate question, after all, the “good girls” in this world don’t have the big, ugly testimonies or scarlet letters taped to our dresses, but I can tell you that good girl’s need grace just as much as the next. So, now that I am finally reading the book, I’m going to attempt to write about it as well. And if you are a good girl, then I want to invite you to join me; grab a copy of the book and read along with me. Let’s find grace together!

I’ve been seeing posts all over the Internets (like this one at Werdyab) and I’ve pulled and repeated some of them that represent what I want my boy to know or to think about… Continue Reading…

Mourning Friendships

July 18, 2012 — 10 Comments

I know, I know, I haven’t written in a while (yes, Floyd, this time I haven’t written, it’s not your email *wink). You want the honest truth of it all? I’ve been in a rut with nothing to say. And I figured it was better to say nothing for a while than to try to force something that would not reach anyone at all. After all, I started this blog in a desire to reach at least one person’s heart every single time I wrote.

Just a moment ago, I opened a post from my friend Duane Scott. The post is titled, The Power of Friendship. After a good moment with a friend who came to help him move his desk, he was speaking with his dad and in the conversation he asked his dad what happened in relation to how people used to go to each other’s houses all the time. The line that he wrote from his dad really hit me,

“I don’t know. The world just isn’t that way anymore.” He turns back to his computer. “We have email instead.” Continue Reading…

I ran across a post on Facebook this morning where a question was asked, “So why did Lucy and Ricky sleep in separate beds? Was it for realz, or was it because the same bed was too much info for TV?” I spent a little bit trying to figure out the actual answer and it seems that the answers are split between, yes it was reality and no, it was television censorship. The biggest answer I saw was that it was too much to show viewers the couple in one bed at the time and so in the spirit of censorship, they chose to put them in two beds. Now, whether that is the truth or not, really isn’t the point here. What I realized when I started thinking about this was that TV censorship in general was so much better back then! Let me give you a few examples I found on Neatorama: Continue Reading…

Fun Friday

June 8, 2012 — 2 Comments

I know I have shared this before, but since it’s Fun Friday, I  couldn’t resist! Enjoy! (and pardon the song itself)

Tasting the Wind

June 7, 2012 — 1 Comment
From April: This is a guest post from Brenda Cowlishaw. I used to babysit Brenda’s children back when they were just babies. Since then we had lost touch until I moved my son to the school that her teenage children went to. Brenda has a great attitude toward life and loves spending time with her family. I am blessed to have Brenda posting today. Continue Reading…