WOMEN'S MINISTRIES BLOG

January 1 is going to arrive in a few days, and I won’t have a single resolution ready.

I love this time of the year. There’s something about it that makes everything look enchanted. It’s the celebration of the birth of the Savior of the …

Thanksgiving day I went for a walk on the trail near my house. As I walked, I processed the disappointment of being alone on this particular day. The kids were with their dad this Thanksgiving and although I had received many kind offers from friends and family to spend the day with them, I had declined them all. The last few weeks had been absolutely jam-packed with my kids in…

I have a card on my dresser that says in sparkling letters, “Ignore the RAIN, look for the RAINBOW.” It’s been sitting there for a few weeks now, and not just because the busyness of my life has turned any flat surface into a dumping ground for mail, coupons, and other knick-knacks. I know I’ve heard the phrase before, or read it, maybe on an Instagram post or seen it…

The Beatles famously sang it, “All we need is love!” Shannan Martin writes, “The way we spend our love is the way we spend our lives.” And of course when our Lord Jesus was asked for the greatest commandment, He spelled it out, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and, love your…

The August 2015 morning dawned clear on the mountainside, and I eagerly grabbed my Bible, hymnal, guitar and journal and crept out of the house for this last day of vacation. Just a few precious hours remained until the chaos of life returned, and I had determined to meet with God and to get answers from Him as to why . . . why . . . why . ….

This summer I was in the mountains with a friend and during the lazy afternoon by the lake I watched her pull out her binoculars and a birding book. And she proceeded to study the winged creatures high in the trees – the flash of feathers, crested heads, bright cries – and to name them. Though the sign by my house reminds me each time I drive by that the…

For the fourth time in two weeks I put my watch on upside down this morning. To be fair, it’s a cuff watch, so there’s no fastening mechanism that indicates which direction is correct, yet . . . how distracted am I? The first time I rolled my eyes and turned it around. The second and third times it was slightly less amusing, but today I’m borderline concerned. This is…

My least favorite chore is mopping the floors. Truth be told, I will ‘spot clean’ to avoid mopping until the last possible second—which is the second before my children’s feet are dirtier inside the house than out.  It feels like a useless task brutally undone by four little people and their summer popsicles. I know I am not alone in this. It is universally tempting to avoid things that we…

The Christmas before last, in what I thought would be a creative and fun gift, I bought DNA testing for both my husband Jim and myself through Ancestry.com. Right after Christmas our test kits came. Basically, the process is to spit into a small vial, seal it with a special chemical that stabilizes your DNA and holds it safe until it gets to the lab where they study it and report back to you the results…